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%.