Lexington County lost another resident to covid-19 and 6 confirmed new cases.Wednesday.

Columbia and Richland County lost another resident and had 17 new cases.

Department of Health and Environmental Control officials reported Wednesday 125 new SC cases and 8 more deaths. 

This brings the total confirmed to 9,175 cases and those who have died to 407.

All 8 deaths occurred in elderly indiviuals from Clarendon (1), Colleton (4), Fairfield (1), Lexington (1), and Richland (1) counties.

The number of new cases by county are Aiken (4), Anderson (3), Beaufort (5), Berkeley (2), Charleston (1), Chester (1), Chesterfield (4), Colleton (2), Darlington (5), Dillon (3), Dorchester (4), Edgefield (1), Fairfield (5), Florence (3), Georgetown (1), Greenville (14), Horry (8),  Jasper (1), Kershaw (3), Lee (1), Lexington (6), Marion (2), Marlboro (3), Orangeburg (2), Pickens (3), Richland (17), Saluda (4), Spartanburg (3), Sumter (2), Williamsburg (2), York (10)

Testing in South Carolina
As of May 19, DHEC’s Public Health Laboratory has conducted 28,775 tests

Of these tests, 3,222 were positive and 25,553 were negative.

A total of 138,238 total tests by both DHEC’s Public Health Laboratory and private labs have been conducted.

Hospital Bed Occupancy
As of this morning, 3,030 inpatient hospital beds are available and 7,209 are in use, a 70.41% statewide rate.

Of the 7,209 inpatient beds currently used, 414 are occupied by covid-19 patients.