The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
On Friday, NCDHHS experienced technical issues that delayed updating the dashboard until around 6 p.m.
As of Friday, there are now 246,346 cases, 1,181 people hospitalized and 4,114 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 2,423 new cases, 24 fewer hospitalizations and 32 additional deaths from Thursday. This marks the highest daily case count increase since the start of the pandemic.
A total of 3,753,953 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's a breakdown of cases in our local viewing area:
| 10/23/2020 | TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | ||||
| NC STATE TOTALS | 246,346 | 2,423 | 4,114 | 32 | ||||
| BERTIE COUNTY | 714 | 4 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 134 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 500 | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 222 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| DARE COUNTY | 355 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| GATES COUNTY | 166 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 851 | 2 | 34 | 0 | ||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 546 | 10 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 840 | 5 | 35 | 0 | ||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 235 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 4,563 | 28 | 134 | 0 |