COVID-19 updates: South Carolina health officials reported 2,621 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, with 88 additional confirmed deaths.

As of 3:42 p.m. Jan. 27, via S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control:

With 10,470 tests reported Wednesday, 25.0% were positive.

Confirmed cases in S.C.: 384,556 (+2,621)
Total positive cases in Charleston County: 31,520 (+232)
Total positive cases in Berkeley County: 12,203 (+124)
Total positive cases in Dorchester County: 12,090 (+136)
Deaths in S.C. from COVID-19: 6,030 (+88)

Source: Department of Health and Environmental Control, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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Source: DHEC/Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

CURRENT GUIDELINES

State and federal health officials strongly recommend the following public health precautions to keep you safe:

What else you can do

Communicate with your peers. Let them know electronically and by social media that you take the virus seriously and encourage them to follow the precautions listed above.
Share scientific information. As businesses reopen, people may get a false sense that everything is back to normal. Let them know it isn’t by sharing resources with them.
Don’t let down your guard. There’s a reason more people are getting infected. It’s because they’re not being as careful as they once were and are coming into more contact with others. Be vigilant.
Urge state officials to require masks in public. Contact your state and local elected officials to urge them to stave a second wave of the disease by requiring masks in public.

Coronavirus health resources

Here is a list of state and national resources that can help you make sense of the dangers and threats of the highly infectious novel coronavirus:

How to protect yourself (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
What to do if you are sick (CDC)
Find lots of COVID-19 data about South Carolina (DHEC)
Daily monitoring worksheet for you and your family (DHEC)
Where you can get a COVID-19 test (DHEC)

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