The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday, there are now 753,280 PCR positive cases and 110,129 antigen positive cases, 1,353 people hospitalized and 11,288 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,239 new total cases and 34 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 10,311,881 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| 3/2/2021 | 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 | 863,409 | 1,239 | 11,288 | 34 | 1,353 | 34 | 5.70% | 10,311,881 | 20,399 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,652 | 0 | 41 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 587 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,371 | 4 | 22 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,374 | 1 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 1,862 | 2 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 676 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 1,953 | 1 | 60 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,705 | 8 | 31 | 3 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,068 | 1 | 78 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 905 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 15,153 | 19 | 280 | 3 |