The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Tuesday, there are now 826,243 PCR positive cases and 137,528 antigen positive cases, 1,103 people hospitalized and 12,583 COVID-19 related deaths.
That is 1,148 new total COVID-19 cases and 23 additional deaths from Monday.
A total of 12,291,945 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here's the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
| TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES TODAY | TOTAL DEATHS | NEW DEATHS TODAY | CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED | CHANGE IN HOSPITALIZATIONS | PERCENT POSITIVITY | COMPLETED TESTS | NEW TESTS COMPLETED SINCE YESTERDAY | |
| NC STATE TOTALS | 963,771 | 1,148 | 12,583 | 23 | 1,103 | 36 | 7.50% | 12,291,945 | 26,611 |
| BERTIE COUNTY | 1,742 | 2 | 43 | 0 | |||||
| CAMDEN COUNTY | 651 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| CHOWAN COUNTY | 1,442 | 2 | 22 | 0 | |||||
| CURRITUCK COUNTY | 1,508 | 1 | 16 | 0 | |||||
| DARE COUNTY | 2,074 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| GATES COUNTY | 726 | 1 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| HERTFORD COUNTY | 2,075 | 3 | 63 | 0 | |||||
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY | 1,859 | 0 | 53 | 3 | |||||
| PASQUOTANK COUNTY | 3,285 | 2 | 80 | 0 | |||||
| PERQUIMANS COUNTY | 984 | 3 | 9 | 0 | |||||
| LOCAL TOTALS | 16,346 | 16 | 314 | 3 |