Beaufort Co. reports 3 more coronavirus cases, no new deaths Wednesday. Where they are
Three more people tested positive for the coronavirus in Beaufort County, state health officials announced Wednesday.
The county now has 236 confirmed cases and nine coronavirus-related deaths, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Although DHEC did not report a new death in Beaufort County on Wednesday, the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office released new information on the county’s most recent victim.
An 80-year-old Okatie man died of the coronavirus on April 19, according to the Beaufort County Chief Deputy Coroner David Ott.
The man was living at NHC Health Care on Okatie Highway in Bluffton, according to Ott.
South Carolina now has reported 4,761 cases of coronavirus and 140 deaths, according to DHEC.
Beaufort County coronavirus deaths
DHEC’s data on COVID-19 deaths appears to conflict with data collected by the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office.
The state agency dropped the county’s death toll from seven to six on Sunday. It then added three deaths Tuesday for a total of nine.
A note at the bottom of DHEC’s daily releases says the data will adjust to reflect any reclassified cases.
It also says deaths are reported by where the person lives — that’s different from how coroners typically collect data, which classifies someone based on where they die.
Here are the deaths recorded by the coroner’s office as of Wednesday:
- An 81-year-old Beaufort man who died March 30.
- A 72-year-old Beaufort man who died March 31.
- An 86-year-old Hilton Head Island man who died April 3.
- An 89-year-old Hilton Head woman who died April 4.
- An 83-year-old Lady’s Island woman who died April 7.
- A 75-year-old Bluffton man who died April 9.
- A 71-year-old Hilton Head man who died April 12.
- A 93-year-old Bluffton man who died April 13.
- An 80-year-old Okatie man who died April 19.
Five new deaths were reported in the state by DHEC Wednesday.
Three of those deaths were elderly patients and two were middle aged, the release said.
Coronavirus recovery rate
As of April 22, DHEC’s Public Health Laboratory had conducted 12,681 tests for COVID-19. Of these tests, around 12% — or 1,570 — were positive and 11,111 were negative.
As of Tuesday morning, 44.7% of hospital beds in Beaufort County were being utilized and 56.9% of hospital beds were being utilized statewide for all types of hospitalizations including coronavirus patients, DHEC data shows.
DHEC estimated Tuesday that 72% of those who’ve previously tested positive for COVID-19 in the state have recovered and that 28% remain ill.
A 59-year-old Beaufort man was one of two patients released from Beaufort Memorial Hospital last week after being seriously ill with COVID-19.
Coronavirus cases by zip code
DHEC’s case data includes anyone who has tested positive since the pandemic started.
Due to a lack of access to testing, state health officials have said that for every one confirmed case, there could be up to nine people who are infected but have not been tested.
The data also includes those who have recovered or died. According to DHEC, the following numbers are current as of Tuesday night.
Here is the breakdown of coronavirus cases in Beaufort County ZIP codes, both positive and possible.
- 75 positive and 461 undiagnosed in Beaufort (29902)
- No positive and six undiagnosed west of Beaufort (29904)
- 33 positive and 203 undiagnosed northwest of Beaufort (29906)
- 20 positive and 123 undiagnosed east of Beaufort (29907)
- 11 positive and 68 undiagnosed in Okatie (29909)
- 41 positive and 252 undiagnosed in Bluffton (29910)
- One positive and 6 undiagnosed on Daufuskie Island (29915)
- Eight positive and 49 undiagnosed on St. Helena Island (29920)
- 17 positive and 104 undiagnosed on Hilton Head Island (29926)
Five positive and 31 undiagnosed in Hardeeville (29927)
- 10 positive and 61 undiagnosed on Hilton Head (29928)
- Nine positive and 55 undiagnosed in Port Royal (29935)
- Eight positive and 49 undiagnosed in Ridgeland (29936)
- One positive and six undiagnosed in Seabrook (29940)
- One positive and six undiagnosed in Sheldon (29941)
- Four positive and 25 undiagnosed in Yemassee (29945)
