Five new Oconee cases, one additional death

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Sunday announced 663 new confirmed cases and 33 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 8 additional confirmed deaths and 4 new probable deaths.  Five new Oconee County cases were reported, along with a new Oconee County death; that of an elderly person who died Saturday.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 110,658, probable cases to 1,330, confirmed deaths to 2,380, and 124 probable deaths.

 

By Saturday, a total of 954,442 tests have been conducted in the state. Through quality control processes, DHEC says it has identified that the number of tests performed was duplicated on four days: May 1, June 1, July 1 and August 1.So it is removing the duplication of numbers for those four days, which leads to a decrease of approximately 21,000 for the total number of tests performed in the state. The duplication in no way affected the results of tests (positive or negative); the number of tests for those four days were counted twice during a data processing error. The processing issue has been corrected.

 

The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC Saturday statewide was 4,450 (not including antibody tests) and the percent positive was 14.9%.