North Carolina added more than 12,000 new COVID-19 cases Feb. 3, thanks to a backlog of cases from December and January that previously went unreported.
The state Department of Health and Human Services dashboard shows an addition of 12,079 new cases Feb. 3, which would be the most one-day addition ever, beating 11,581 on Jan. 9.
But a note says that 7,912 of those were "from tests performed at FastMed Urgent Care clinics during December 2020 and January 2021 that had not been previously reported to NCDHHS."
Accounting for those, the new cases Feb. 3 come to 4,167.
The addition increased the total in the state to 776,307 since the start of the pandemic.