Sunday’s South Carolina COVID numbers

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 515 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 AND  24 additional confirmed deaths, including one additional death of an Oconee County resident.  That Oconeean was elderly and died August 17. Yesterday’s report included 17 new cases of the virus among Oconeeans. This brings the total number of SC confirmed cases to 129,484 and confirmed deaths to 2,915.  The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC Saturday statewide was 5,482 (not including antibody tests) and the percent positive was 9.4%.