Coronavirus Death Toll Now Stands At 430 In North Carolina

NORTH CAROLINA — Coronavirus has claimed the lives of 430 North Carolina residents. That's according to data released Monday morning from the Department of Health and Human Services, which reports eight new coronavirus deaths were recorded in the state since Sunday.

The increase in deaths come as 11,848 people in North Carolina have confirmed positive for the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. The tally represents an increase by 184 cases since Sunday.

COVID-19 is present in every one of North Carolina's 100 counties except Avery County.

Buried in the latest batch of data is good news, according to Gov. Roy Cooper.

"Our death toll is rising slower," Cooper said at a press conference Monday afternoon. "We're hopeful we can enter Phase one [of lifting restrictions] this weekend."

Hospitalizations rose by 23 patients overnight to 498, NC DHHS said.

The new batch of data released May 4 by state public health officials shows that laboratories in the state have completed at least 146,439 tests.

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The number of outbreaks confirmed in congregate living facilities in the state, such as nursing homes and correctional facilities, continues to rise as deaths reported in these facilities claim more than half of the state's death toll.

Last week, DHHS reversed course and began identifying specific facility locations where outbreaks are occurring. As of Monday morning, at least 3,325 people had tested positive at North Carolina congregate living facilities as COVID-19 outbreaks were reported in 56 nursing homes, 23 residential care facilities and at least 14 correctional facilities, DHHS said.

According to the state agency, a survey of about 81 percent of the state's hospitals shows that 704 of the available 3,217 ventilators in North Carolina are in use as of Monday morning. That represents about 22 percent of the state's ventilators are currently in use. When it comes to intensive care unit beds, 880 beds, or about 27 percent, of 3,223 beds are filled.

Globally, nearly 3.5 million have been infected by COVID-19, and more than 248,000 people have lost their lives, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday afternoon. In the U.S., nearly 1.2 million people have been infected and at least 67,795 people have died from COVID-19.

In an attempt to provide as much information to our readers as possible, Patch is publishing a county-by-county breakdown of the coronavirus cases reported in 99 of North Carolina's 100 counties, along with the number of cases by county and the number of deaths:

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