State health officials today reported 49 more deaths from covid-19.

What they did not tell was that only 10 died yesterday, none of them in Lexington County.

The other 39 died over the last week but the numbers were only reported to them today.

3 deaths on July 19, 20 and 21 were in Lexington County.

3 deaths occurred in Richland County July 15, 16 and 17 and 2 on July 21

The Department of Health and Environmental Control also announced 1,538 new confirmed cases and 5 probable cases.

They did not say over how many days those cases were discovered.

This brought the number of confirmed cases to 76,315, probable cases to 291, confirmed deaths to 1,294, and 40 probable deaths.

2 cases were reported of Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.

Both are children age 10 or under from the Upstate.

This brings the number of MIS-C cases in South Carolina to 4.

As of yesterday, 669,445 tests have been conducted in the state.

7,360 individual test results were reported to DHEC yesterday not including antibody tests.

20.9% tested positive for the virus. 79.1% tested negative as uninfected.

Based on current TeleTracking, as of yesterday:

• 4,425 hospital beds are available and 7,998 are in use or 64.3%.
• Of the 7,998 beds in use, 1,723 are occupied by covid-19 patients.
• Of 1,458 ventilators, 532 are in use and 241 of those are covid-19 patients