RALEIGH, N.C. - On Wednesday Governor Cooper, members of the Coronavirus Task Force and NC Office of Resiliency and Recovery updated N.C. residents on the state's COVID-19 response and rent and utility assistance.
The press conference was at 3 p.m., and you can watch the updates in the player above.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services also released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Wednesday, there are now 855,357 PCR positive cases and 148,151 antigen positive cases, 610 people hospitalized and 13,110 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 265 new total cases and 9 additional deaths from Tuesday.
A total of 13,281,908 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 | 1,003,508 | 265 | 13,110 | 9 | 610 | 8 | 3.50% |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,785 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 684 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,485 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,574 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,147 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| GATES COUNTY | 749 | 1 | 13 | 0 | |||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,111 | 1 | 64 | 0 | |||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,890 | 0 | 60 | 0 | |||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,426 | 1 | 84 | 1 | |||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 1,023 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 16,874 | 4 | 331 | 1 |