The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Wednesday, there are now 179,532 cases, 916 people hospitalized and 2,958 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 897 new cases, 89 additional hospitalizations and 49 more deaths from Tuesday.
Our local viewing area saw 27 new cases and 6 deaths from Tuesday. Hertford County reported the highest case increase with 15 new COVID-19 cases and 5 new deaths.
A total of 2,490,113 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
| TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | |
| NC STATE TOTALS | 179,532 | 897 | 2,958 | 49 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 498 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 101 | -1 | 3 | 0 |
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 257 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 123 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| DARE COUNTY | 255 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| GATES COUNTY | 101 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 612 | 15 | 23 | 5 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 357 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 606 | 4 | 26 | 0 |
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 152 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| LOCAL TOTALS | 3,062 | 27 | 86 | 6 |