The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced the following COVID-19 updates.
Today’s cases and deaths (scdhec.gov/COVID19)
- New confirmed/probable total cases: 1,612/70 Summary click here
- New confirmed/probable total deaths: 35/6 Summary click here
Cumulative totals (scdhec.gov/COVID19)
- Confirmed and probable cases: 206,653/14,182
- Confirmed and probable deaths: 4,126/318
- Tests performed for South Carolinians: 2,749,657
Testing opportunities (scdhec.gov/findatest)
- Testing opportunities available statewide: 295
Percent positive (scdhec.gov/COVID19dashboard)
- 7,480 new individual test results reported statewide (not including antibody tests)
- 21.6% percent positive
Upstate News Headlines
- Weekend Things to Do: Greenville South Carolina
- City of Greenville outlines plans two decades in advance, what this means for low income residents
- More than $200 million from state emergency fund could be allocated to help vaccine rollout
- College Board discontinues SAT subject tests and the optional SAT essay; Upstate universities adjust
- Covid-19 vaccine update: number of doses allocated to SC remains stagnant, DHEC reports
- Walmart & Sam's Club begin vaccinating South Carolinians
- 20% of Richland county deaths are COVID related
- USC researchers seek test subjects to study COVID-19’s effect on the brain
- USC researchers seek test subjects to study COVID-19’s effect on the brain
- One dead after car chase, crash in northeast Richland County
- SC man missing and considered ‘endangered’
