ELIZABETHTOWN — Saturday’s coronavirus report from the state raised Bladen County’s total to by six to 1,132 since the pandemic began.
There have been 19 deaths.
An update from the county Health Department was expected later in the evening.
The DHHS postal ZIP code report lists 351 cases in Elizabethtown and White Lake since the pandemic began; 215 in Bladenboro; 140 in East Arcadia; 123 in Clarkton; 75 in White Oak; 66 in Tar Heel; 25 in Kelly; 23 in Council; and 10 in Dublin.
There are nine fatalities listed for the ZIP in Elizabethtown and White Oak. There have been two each in East Arcadia and Dublin, and one each in Bladenboro, Tar Heel, White Oak and Kelly. The other two are not linked to a ZIP code unique to Bladen County.
Saturday’s totals from the state included:
• 4,605 deaths, up 23 from Friday’s noon report.
• 291,245 cases, up 2,676.
• 1,196 hospitalized, up 35.
• 4,311,111 tests, up 46,514.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health conditions, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal.
In Bladen County, the ages 25-49 category has had 40 percent of the cases, 50-64 has 23 percent, 18-24 has 12 percent, 17-and-under has 11 percent, 65-74 has 8 percent and 75-or-older has 5 percent. Of the fatalities, ages 75-and-older has made up 63 percent, 65-74 has 21 percent, 50-64 has 11 percent and 25-49 has 5 percent.
Statewide, the ages 25-49 category has had 40 percent of the cases, 50-64 has 19 percent, 18-24 has 16 percent, 17-and-under has 11 percent, 65-74 has 8 percent and 75-or-older has 7 percent. Of the fatalities, ages 75-and-older has made up 59 percent, 65-74 has 23 percent, 50-64 has 14 percent and 25-49 has 4 percent.
In adjacent counties to Bladen, there have been 320 deaths and 20,646 cases. Cumberland has 105 deaths and 7,702 cases; Robeson has 101 deaths and 6,478 cases; Columbus has 66 deaths and 1,900 cases; Sampson has 31 deaths and 3,032 cases; and Pender has 17 deaths and 1,534 cases.
Congregate living settings in North Carolina have totaled 2,356 deaths and 31,635 positive cases. Outbreaks have been identified and are active at 225 nursing homes, 123 residential care facilities, 53 correctional institutions and nine other facilities. Of those, seven are in Robeson, six in Cumberland, five in Sampson, four in Pender and three in Columbus.
Robeson and Cumberland each have two clusters; Bladen and Sampson each have one.
With 97 percent of the state’s hospitals reporting, DHHS says there is availability of 73 percent of the ventilators, 21 percent of the intensive care unit beds and 25 percent of all hospital beds.
In the personal protective equipment category, all categories have availability of more than one year.
A combined 13 metropolitan counties have the state’s three largest cities and account for 39.1 percent of the deaths (1,802) and 45.9 percent of the cases (133,590).
In the Charlotte area, Mecklenburg County has 405 deaths and 36,106 positive cases, Gaston County has 145 deaths and 8,269 cases, Rowan County has 121 deaths and 4,482 cases, Cabarrus County has 95 deaths and 5,345 cases, and Union County has 66 deaths and 6,365 cases — a total of 832 deaths and 60,567 cases.
In and near the Triangle area, Wake County has 280 deaths and 22,938 cases, Durham County has 102 deaths and 9,709 cases, Johnston County has 69 deaths and 6,141 cases, and Orange County has 59 deaths and 3,290 cases — a total of 510 deaths and 42,078 cases.
In the interior of the 12-county Piedmont Triad, Guilford County has 215 deaths and 12,802 cases, Forsyth County has 129 deaths and 9,818 cases, Randolph County has 69 deaths and 4,225 cases, and Davidson County has 47 deaths and 4,100 cases — a total of 460 deaths and 30,945 cases.
According to the coronavirus tracker of Johns Hopkins University, available on BladenJournal.com, more than 9.7 million confirmed cases and 236,000 deaths are counted in the U.S. The second-highest case total is in India, with more than 8.4 million.
There are more than 49.6 million cases worldwide, with more than 1.2 million deaths.
Alan Wooten can be reached at 910-247-9132 or awooten@bladenjournal.com. Twitter: @alanwooten19.
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