The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
NCDHHS has not yet released Wednesday's COVID-19 numbers. These numbers are from Tuesday, April 20.
As of Tuesday, there are now 816,504 PCR positive cases and 134,062 antigen positive cases, 1,070 people hospitalized and 12,437 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,200 new total cases and 19 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 11,983,279 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| 4/20/2021 | 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 | 950,566 | 1,200 | 12,437 | 19 | 1,170 | 74 | 6.80% | 11,983,279 | 15,195 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,727 | 0 | 43 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 639 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,426 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,496 | 3 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,054 | 5 | 9 | 1 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 722 | 1 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,052 | 1 | 63 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,846 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,249 | 4 | 80 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 972 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 16,183 | 16 | 300 | 1 |