Health officials reported Wednesday that  4 South Carolinians died of covid-19 Tuesday.

3 were elderly. 1 in Beaufort County was middle aged.

No one in Lexington or Richland counties died Tuesday.

The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Wednesday:

-  601 new confirmed cases and 45 new probable cases.

Lexington County had 39 new cases. Richland County had 71.

-  26 additional confirmed deaths and 11 new probable deaths.

- Total confirmed cases to date are 118,699, probable cases 1,804, confirmed deaths 2,652 and 142 probable deaths.

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- As of Tuesday, 1,023,083 tests have been conducted in the state.

- 3,063 individual test results were reported Tuesday statewide.

- Of those, 19.6% tested positive as infected.

That means 80.4% tested negative as uninfected.