Lexington County set a new covid-19 recovery record this week.

Although daily case reports have been in double digits, no one has died of covid-19 for 7 straight days.

Columbia and Richland County have had no deaths in 4 of the last 5 days.

Health officials credit early virus detection and improved treatement for the disease.

Lexington County had 76 new cases and Richland County 79 reported Tuesday.

Greenville and York counties continue to lead the state in new cases.

Greenville had 240 new cases and York 127 reported Tuesday.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today's cases and deaths (scdhec.gov/COVID19) 

• New confirmed/probable total cases: 1,297/23 Summary click here 
• New confirmed/probable total deaths: 13/10 Summary click here 

Cumulative totals (scdhec.gov/COVID19)

• Confirmed and probable cases: 205,004/13,908
• Confirmed and probable deaths: 4,091/313
• Tests performed for South Carolinians: 2,727,268

Testing opportunities (scdhec.gov/findatest)

• Testing opportunities available statewide: 282

Percent positive (scdhec.gov/COVID19dashboard)

• 7,375 individual test results reported statewide yesterday (not including antibody tests)
• 17.6% tested positive as infected with the virus.
• That means 82.4% tested negative as virus free.

Facility reports

• Hospital data (daily): scdhec.gov/COVID19hospitals
• Extended care facility data (Tuesdays and Fridays): scdhec.gov/nursinghomedata
• Assisted living visitation status (Tuesdays): scdhec.gov/nursinghomedata
• Private, public and charter schools (Tuesdays and Fridays): scdhec.gov/schools

The information above as well as extensive reporting on county-level information, demographics and more is available at scdhec.gov/COVID19.