Thursday’s South Carolina COVID numbers

South Carolina Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 740 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 27 additional confirmed deaths.  The latest death toll includes one Oconee County resident, who died Wednesday.  Eleven new Oconee County virus  cases are on yesterday’s report.
This brings the total number of South Carolina confirmed cases to 132,565 and confirmed  deaths to 2,992.

The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC Wednesday statewide was 6,294 (not including antibody tests) and the percent positive was 11.8%.