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 826,340 PCR positive cases and 95,579 antigen positive cases, 1,958 people hospitalized and 10,562 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,988 new total cases and 61 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 9,689,154 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| 2/16/2021 | 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 | 826,340 | 1,988 | 10,562 | 61 | 1,958 | 17 | 7.40% | 9,689,154 | 29,066 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,598 | 0 | 39 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 532 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,320 | 1 | 21 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,272 | 5 | 14 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 1,820 | 4 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 627 | 1 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 1,892 | 4 | 56 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,649 | 2 | 28 | 0 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 2,946 | 1 | 74 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 854 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 14,510 | 24 | 263 | 0 | |||||