Worsening South Carolina (and Oconee) COVID-19 numbers
Today’s DHEC report notes an additional 4,000 (4,037)COVID-19 cases in South Carolina, including 71 more deaths. Five of those deaths make for Oconee’s first COVID-19 deaths so far in 2021. Four of the five are elderly people, one middle-age. New Oconee cases numbered 50 people. Total test results received statewide were 13,052; and the positivity was 30.9%.