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 779,157 PCR positive cases and 120,007 antigen positive cases, 956 people hospitalized and 11,854 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,062 new total COVID-19 cases and 18 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 11,057,814 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of cases in local areas:
| 3/23/2021 | 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 | 899,164 | 1,062 | 11,854 | 18 | 956 | 32 | 6.30% | 11,057,814 | 15,613 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,689 | 0 | 41 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 619 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,392 | -1 | 22 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,441 | 1 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 1,948 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 697 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 1,989 | 0 | 63 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,766 | 3 | 39 | 0 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,158 | 0 | 78 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 940 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 15,639 | 6 | 292 | 0 |
