The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Friday there are now 199,768 cases, 903 people hospitalized and 3,409 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,579 new cases, one additional hospitalization and 53 additional deaths from Thursday.
A total of 2,903,054 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
On Thursday the percent of positive COVID-19 tests was 4.8% and Friday it went up by .4% to 5.2%.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| BERTIE COUNTY | 577 | 17 | 8 | 0 |
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 113 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 346 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 182 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| DARE COUNTY | 271 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| GATES COUNTY | 138 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 744 | 12 | 29 | 1 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 449 | 35 | 17 | 0 |
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 695 | 3 | 30 | 0 |
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 186 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| LOCAL TOTALS | 3,701 | 101 | 102 | 1 |