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 146,779 cases, 1,026 people hospitalized and 2,396 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,263 new cases, 46 additional hospitalizations and 48 additional deaths from Monday.
The COVID-19 case increase was over double from Monday's when there was 564 new cases.
A total of 1,951,120 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
8/18/2020
| TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | |||
| BERTIE COUNTY | 326 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 79 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 168 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 85 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DARE COUNTY | 216 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| GATES COUNTY | 58 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 410 | 6 | 12 | 1 | ||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 321 | 2 | 16 | 0 | ||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 458 | 2 | 21 | 1 | ||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 93 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 2,214 | 19 | 64 | 2 |