93 new cases of coronavirus in Beaufort County, state health officials say Friday
State health officials reported 93 more cases of COVID-19 in Beaufort County on Friday, bringing the county’s total to 1,809 since the pandemic began.
No additional deaths were reported in the county.
Statewide there were 1,725 new confirmed cases and 26 deaths, state health officials said. Twenty three of the new deaths were of elderly individuals. Three were of middle-aged people.
Of the 9,686 individual test results reported to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control in the state Thursday, 17.8 percent were positive for coronvirus.
As of Thursday, 89 percent of those known to have COVID-19 have recovered, state health officials said.
Since March, 24 people connected to Beaufort County have died of COVID-19, according the Beaufort Couinty Coroner’s Office.
DHEC has said Beaufort County is one of 24 counties with the highest incidence rates in the state. Health officials reported that the 24 counties each had 301 cases or more per 100,000 people reported between June 23 and July 6.
Beaufort County could have as many as 11,112 undiagnosed cases, DHEC officials say.
DHEC does not provide an overall, county-by-county number of cases versus the number of people who have recovered. It also does not release any identifying information or specifics concerning underlying conditions someone who dies from the coronavirus might have had.
Positive cases are those in which a patient has been tested for and been diagnosed with coronavirus. Because of a lack of access to testing, state health officials have said that for every confirmed case, there could be up to nine people who are infected but have not been tested.
DHEC’s totals can have small increases and decreases day to day as officials find discrepancies in the data.
The total count of cases includes anyone who has tested positive since the pandemic started. The data also includes those who have recovered or died.
The state agency collects data based on where a person resides, not where they were tested.
DHEC also counts deaths based on where the patient lives rather than where he or she died.
Coronavirus cases at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island are being reported in the 29902 ZIP code.
