Sunday’s South Carolina COVID report
The South Carolina health agency tallied 716 new cases of COVID-19 on its Sunday report. Of that number, 26 of the cases were attributed to Oconee County residents. Two new confirmed deaths appear in yesterday’s report: elderly residents in Hampton and Richland counties. So far, in October one Oconee death is reported. That of a middle-aged county resident on Friday. The latest numbers bring to 151,649 the number of South Carolina cases since the count started. The death toll: 3,348. The total number of individual tests reported to DHEC Saturday statewide was 6,984 and the positivity was 10.3%.