The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Tuesday, there are now 863,496 PCR positive cases and 152,351 antigen positive cases, 388 people hospitalized and 13,455 COVID-19-related deaths.
That is 1,488 new total cases and 21 new deaths from Friday. NCDHHS does not update its COVID-19 dashboard over the weekend, and there was no update on Monday due to the July 4 holiday.
A total of 13,894,802 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| 7/6/2021 | TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED | CHANGE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS | PERCENT POSITIVITY | COMPLETED TESTS | NEW TESTS COMPLETED SINCE YESTERDAY |
| NC STATE TOTALS | 1,015,847 | 1,488 | 13,455 | 21 | 388 | -12 | 4.00% | 13,894,802 | 53,642 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,796 | 1 | 45 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 696 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,495 | 7 | 35 | 1 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,584 | 4 | 16 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,201 | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 750 | 1 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,117 | 0 | 64 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,895 | 0 | 61 | 0 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,453 | 2 | 84 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 1,034 | -3 | 11 | -1 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 17,021 | 23 | 345 | 0 |