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 986,845 PCR positive cases and 179,596 antigen positive cases, 3,342 people hospitalized and 14,152 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 4,623 new total cases and 32 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 15,460,983 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| 8/23/2021 | 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 | 1,166,441 | 4,623 | 14,152 | 32 | 3,342 | 145 | 14.70% | 15,460,983 | 34,643 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,965 | 2 | 46 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 763 | 1 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,694 | 4 | 37 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,854 | 11 | 17 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,863 | 22 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 826 | 3 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,276 | 4 | 65 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 2,057 | 4 | 62 | 0 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,787 | 11 | 88 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 1,150 | 4 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 19,235 | 66 | 356 | 0 |