61 new COVID-19 cases reported in Beaufort County Tuesday, bringing the total to 2,580

Sixty-one new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Beaufort County on Tuesday, bringing the total to 2,580 since the pandemic began, according to data from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

South Carolina has recorded 73,101 cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,203 confirmed deaths since the pandemic began.

DHEC reported three confirmed deaths in Beaufort County Tuesday. The agency doesn’t provide specific details such as age or gender.

The dates of the deaths appear to match ones already reported by the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office on Monday.

The Coroner’s Office reports ten coronavirus deaths in the county for July. The month’s death toll surpasses the record set in April of 9.

Overall, 31 people have died because of the coronavirus in the county since the pandemic started, according to Coroner’s Office data.

There were 56 confirmed deaths reported Tuesday statewide. Two of the individuals were young adults, 16 middle aged and 38 elderly.

Beaufort County’s seven-day average of new daily coronavirus cases was 69 Tuesday.

The highest seven-day average of 80 was recorded on July 16.

The county’s lowest seven-day average for new cases was zero on May 9.

DHEC reported all counties but five — Edgefield, Lancaster, Malboro, Cherokee and Oconee — had 301 cases or more per 100,000 people reported between July 7 and July 20.

The state agency also reported that Beaufort was seeing an increase in incidence rates for the past two weeks compared to the previous two-week period. Counties that saw a stable rate or decreasing rate included Charleston, Marion, Horry, Dillon, Lancaster, Laurens, Pickens and Oconee.

Twenty-two percent of 8,490 COVID-19 tests completed statewide Monday were positive, DHEC says.

Individual ZIP Codes for the Beaufort County area did not appear to have been updated with the daily DHEC report Tuesday. ZIP Code data below was last reported Monday by DHEC.

Beaufort County could have as many as 15,849 undiagnosed cases, DHEC officials say.

Positive cases are those in which a patient has been tested for and 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 has put a hold on reporting state hospital data as it transitions to a new national data program.

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.

DHEC’s totals can have small increases and decreases day to day as officials find discrepancies in the data.

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.

DHEC 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.