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BY SHARON MCBRAYER Staff Writer Burke County added 95 new cases of COVID-19 over a two-day period and the state’s top health official says the number of new cases in North Carolina is alarming. The Burke County Health Department reported a total of 4,995 cases of the virus on Saturday and 4,946 cases on Friday, up from 4,900 cases on Thursday. The Burke County COVID-19 dashboard, which lags behind the health department’s daily briefing, showed the county has 1,043 active cases of the virus on Saturday. The dashboard also showed there are 25 people in the county currently hospitalized. COVID-19 is responsible for 75 deaths in Burke County in less than nine months. The first case of the virus was reported in the county on March 24.

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