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GCS suspends summer training
In the past few weeks, Greenville County has been an important point for the rise in COVID-19 cases. On Thursday night, Greenville County Schools suspended athletic teams’ summer training until the pandemic numbers improved and postponed Academic Recovery Camps until at least July 20.
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Charleston leads in new cases Thursday
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 1,106 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state, as well as 8 additional deaths.
The total number of confirmed cases in SC reached 28,962, along with 691 deaths.
Charleston County led the state with 208 new cases, followed by Greenville County and Horry County with 126 each.
Unemployment figures
In the complaints week that ended on June 20, 17,098 people filed their initial claim for unemployment insurance. This is a decrease of 2,268 initial complaints from the previous week.
In the past 14 weeks, there have been 618,729 initial complaints in South Carolina.
Greenville hospitals have little blood plasma
With the increase in hospitalized patients battling the symptoms of COVID-19 in South Carolina, local health officials say they have burned out a stock of blood plasma, which is being used in a clinical trial to increase patients’ ability to fight virus.
Blood Connection in Greenville has built a stock of about 200 units of convalescent blood plasma in the past two months, but the increase in treatments has depleted that stock, said Dr. Robert Rainer, medical director of The Blood Connection.
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SC Attorney General: Cities are OK to require the public to wear masks
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said on Wednesday that he believes Greenville and Columbia acted legally when cities passed emergency measures this week requiring people to wear masks in certain public places.
City officials in Greenville, including Mayor Knox White, said they directed mask requirements to grocery stores and pharmacies because these are places people should go and cannot choose to avoid.
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What to know Thursday
- The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced on Wednesday that there are 1,291 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state, as well as 10 additional deaths. Greenville County led with 241.
- An increase in demand for spot COVID testing in Greenville has made medical clinics struggling to keep up, sometimes leaving those seeking a diagnosis frustrated and confused.
- There has been little change in the number of COVID-19 deaths in Greenville County and throughout South Carolina this month, even as the number of new cases doubled and hospitalizations peaked.
- Grocery shoppers in Greenville settled on Tuesday the first day after the city enacted an emergency decree requiring customers from supermarkets and pharmacies on the outskirts of the city to wear masks in an effort to stem the rising tide of coronavirus in Greenville.
- Greenville County Schools will allow students from kindergarten through 12th grade to complete their online jobs in the fall.
- The city of Clemson will require people to wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19. The ordinance was unanimously approved. It goes into effect on Thursday and will expire in 60 days, or until the City Council votes for its cancellation.
- Republican state deputy Jonathon Hill of Townville sharply criticized the way Governor Henry McMaster dealt with the coronavirus pandemic, saying that McMaster acted like “a shaky child in the middle of a storm hidden under the bed with the family dog and teddy bears stuffed animals “.