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 178,635 cases, 827 people hospitalized and 2,909 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 716 new cases, 62 additional hospitalization and 12 more deaths from Sunday.
Our local viewing area saw 11 new cases and zero deaths from Monday. Bertie County reports the highest case increase with 3 new COVID-19 cases.
A total of 2,469,977 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
9/8/2020
| TOTAL CASES | TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | ||||
| NC STATE TOTALS | 178,635 | 716 | 2,909 | 12 | ||||
| BERTIE COUNTY | 495 | 3 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 102 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 254 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| DARE COUNTY | 254 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| GATES COUNTY | 101 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 597 | 2 | 18 | 0 | ||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 357 | 4 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 602 | 0 | 26 | 0 | ||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 151 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 3,035 | 11 | 79 | 0 |