Raleigh, N.C. – With three days left to North Carolina’s current restrictions to limit the spread of coronavirus, the state’s trend lines regarding the virus remain unsettling.
Thirty-five deaths related to the statewide virus were reported on Tuesday, the highest one-day total during the epidemic. Meanwhile, 1,203 people across the state have been hospitalized by COVID-19, the second-highest number of ODIs to date.
Just three times since the outbreak began in North Carolina in early March, 500 or more people have died in a single day, and all three were in September. Although the number of new infections peaked in July, the death toll did not reach 42૨ on any day at that time.
The seven-day average of coronavirus deaths in North Carolina is above 25 per day, after a daily decline of 19 on Oct. 10. A total of 3,992 people have died in the state during the epidemic.
Another 1,578 coronavirus infections were reported across the state on Tuesday, bringing the total to 248,750 during the epidemic. But an estimated 88 percent are believed to have recovered.
The rolling of new cases, the seven-day average, for the third day in a row, at 2,038, remains above 2,000 per day. The one-time average in mid-July averaged four days.
Similarly, North Carolina had the previous two days when more than 1,200 people were hospitalized in COVID-19. Demographic details provided by the state Department of Health and Human Services show that more than three-quarters of the 150 people admitted to hospitals on Tuesday were aged 50 or older, and the vast majority were men.
The percentage of statewide positive coronavirus tests on Tuesday was 7.4 percent, the highest level in more than two weeks.
Robson County in North Carolina has the second-highest number of positive tests, just behind Duplin County, according to Robeson County Family Physician Dr.
“We are, unfortunately, getting happy, and the virus is winning,” Shanti said. “We need to work because our children are suffering. We are suffering as a community, and I have always feared that our hospital system would be overwhelmed.”
Gov Kto. On the 2nd, the government eased some of the state’s epidemic restrictions by Roy Cooper, which led to the bar being reopened to a limited number of people outside and at event venues at limited capacity. But his executive order expires at 5pm on Friday, and he said last week that state health officials would keep an eye on this week’s decision-making trends on how to proceed after Friday.
WRAL anchor / reporter Lena Tillet contributed to this report.
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