Updated Oconee COVID numbers

As the country’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 200 thousand , the Oconee County death toll from the virus has reached 28.  Statewide the death toll was reported yesterday at 3,067. Other Oconee County numbers, according to a South Carolina DHEC posting, include 68 county residents hospitalized for COVID.  The county’s case count has reached 1,355.  More than 15 thousand tests have been conducted in Oconee.  The latest South Carolina statewide recovery rate is 93.5%.