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There were 97 deaths reported statewide Sunday, raising the overall total to 8,083.
DHHS lists COVID-19 cases and deaths on the day they are confirmed by medical providers and public health officials, so individuals may have been infected or died days before their cases are counted.
DHHS will not issue a COVID-19 report Monday because of the Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday.
It took just 13 days for the statewide death toll to go from 7,000 to 8,000.
The most deaths statewide per month during the pandemic were 1,542 during December. As of 11 a.m. Sunday, there have been 1,280 deaths during January.
Nationally, N.C. ranks 16th in overall deaths, and fourth in the Southeast behind Florida (23,799 as of Friday), Georgia (12,138) and Tennessee (8,311).