COLUMBIA, SC (WBTW) — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 113 new cases of the novel coronavirus and one additional death Sunday.
This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 7,653 and those who have died to 331, according to SCDHEC.
The death was in an elderly individual in Marion County, the state health department said in its daily update.
The number of new cases by county are listed below:
- Aiken (2)
- Allendale (1)
- Anderson (2)
- Bamberg (1)
- Beaufort (6)
- Charleston (1)
- Chesterfield (4)
- Clarendon (1)
- Darlington (1)
- Dillon (7)
- Dorchester (1)
- Florence (12)
- Greenville (13)
- Hampton (1)
- Horry (6)
- Jasper (2)
- Lancaster (5)
- Laurens (1)
- Lee (7)
- Lexington (4)
- Marion (1)
- Orangeburg (2)
- Pickens (5)
- Richland (15)
- Saluda (1)
- Spartanburg (7)
- Sumter (1)
- Williamsburg (2)
- York (1)
The state reports that 3,620 inpatient hospital beds are available and 6,354 are in use, which is a 63.71 percent statewide hospital bed utilization rate as of Sunday morning. Of the 6,354 inpatient beds currently used, 446 are occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19.
As of Saturday, DHEC’s Public Health Laboratory had conducted 20,813 tests for COVID-19. Of these tests, 2,704 were positive and 18,109 were negative. A total of 84,457 total tests by both DHEC’s Public Health Laboratory and private labs have been conducted in the state.
