The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Thursday, there are now 855,603 PCR positive cases and 148,386 antigen positive cases, 613 people hospitalized and 13,130 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 481 new total cases and 20 additional deaths from Wednesday.
A total of 13,301,441 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED | CHANGE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS | PERCENT POSITIVITY | |
| NC STATE TOTALS | 1,003,989 | 481 | 13,130 | 20 | 613 | 3 | 2.90% |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,785 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 684 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,485 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,574 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,149 | 2 | 10 | 0 | |||
| GATES COUNTY | 749 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,112 | 1 | 64 | 0 | |||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,893 | 3 | 60 | 0 | |||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,429 | 3 | 84 | 0 | |||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 1,024 | 1 | 12 | 0 | |||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 16,884 | 10 | 331 | 0 |