The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Friday, there are now 853,634 PCR positive cases and 47,520 antigen positive cases, 694 people hospitalized and 13,078 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 738 new total cases and 23 additional deaths from Thursday.
A total of 13,200,812 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED | CHANGE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS | PERCENT POSITIVITY | |
| NC STATE TOTALS | 1,001,154 | 738 | 13,078 | 23 | 694 | 13 | 3.10% |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,782 | 0 | 44 | 1 | |||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 680 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,480 | 1 | 23 | 0 | |||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,574 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,139 | 2 | 10 | 0 | |||
| GATES COUNTY | 745 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,109 | 0 | 64 | 1 | |||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,888 | -3 | 59 | 0 | |||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,413 | 3 | 83 | 0 | |||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 1,023 | 1 | 12 | 0 | |||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 16,833 | 5 | 329 | 2 |