1 death in Richland County, none in Lexington County

Each county reports 14 new covid-19 cases

Posted 5/23/20

Lexington escaped another day without a covid-19 death.

Richland County and Columbia had 1 more death.

Lexington and Richland each had 14 confirmed new virus cases,

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1 death in Richland County, none in Lexington County

Each county reports 14 new covid-19 cases

Posted

Lexington escaped another day without a covid-19 death.

Richland County and Columbia had 1 more death.

Lexington and Richland each had 14 confirmed new virus cases,

 Department of Health and Environmental Control officials Ssturday reported 248 new SC cases and 6 more deaths.

This brings the total confirmed to 9,895 cases and those who have died to 425.

5 deaths were elderly individuals in Chesterfield (1), Florence (1), Marion (1), Richland (1), and York (1) counties,.

1 death was a middle-aged individual in Clarendon County.

The number of new cases by county are Aiken (2), Barnwell (2), Beaufort (22), Berkeley (3), Charleston (10), Cherokee (1), Chester (2), Chesterfield (11), Clarendon (1), Colleton (3), Darlington (2), Dillon (2), Dorchester (11), Fairfield (3), Florence (15), Georgetown (2), Greenville (30), Greenwood (3), Horry (11), Jasper (2), Kershaw (10), Lancaster (1), Lee (4), Lexington (14), Marion (3), Marlboro (18), Oconee (1), Orangeburg (12), Pickens (4), Richland (14), Saluda (1), Spartanburg (10), Sumter (4), Williamsburg (9), York (5)

Testing in South Carolina
As of May 22, a total of 163,818 tests have been conducted in the state with results to health care providers in 24-48 hours.

Hospital Bed Occupancy
As of this morning, 3,464 inpatient hospital beds are available and 6,834 are in use, a 66.36% statewide  rate.

Of the 6,834 inpatient beds used, 430 are occupied by covid-19 patients.

richland county, Lexington County, COVID-19, DHEC

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