Every day, The Greenville News writes a new live story with the latest COVID-19 news relevant to our communities in the state. This is our COVID-19 news summary for October 29, 2020. We will update this story only until the end of the day.
DHEC announces 918 new cases on Thursday and 13 deaths
Today, DHEC of SC announced 918 new confirmed cases and 60 new probable cases of the new coronavirus COVID-19, 13 additional confirmed deaths and 2 new probable deaths.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 166,344, probable cases to 8,247, confirmed deaths to 3,645 and 244 probable deaths.
The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC yesterday across the state was 6,945 (not including antibody tests) and the positive percentage was 13.2%.
Greenville County leads again with the highest number of daily cases, 130.
Interactive map: An analysis of South Carolina’s COVID-19 cases by county and postal code