RALEIGH, N.C. — The NC Department of Health and Human Services reported Sunday the state's third-highest daily number of confirmed new cases of COVID-19 and second-highest number of confirmed deaths.
Sunday's 3,117 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 would have been the highest at any point in the pandemic before Veterans Day.
The state also confirmed that COVID-19 was linked with 50 deaths, which matches the second-highest number confirmed on a single day at any point during the pandemic. Deaths are not all from a single day because they are reported as they are confirmed.
There are also 1,395 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Saturday, the last day for which data was available. That day, 95% of the hospitals in the state reported their COVID-19 patients.
On Friday, the last day for which data is available, 7.9% of COVID-19 tests in North Carolina came back positive. That was enough to continue the week-long elevation of the seven-day rolling average for testing.
On Nov. 7, the rolling average for test positivity was 6.6%. It has risen each day since, reaching 7.6% on Friday.
