Alan Wooten Bladen Journal
ELIZABETHTOWN More active coronavirus cases were being counted Sunday in Bladen County than had been tallied in every full month report except December.
The Health Department’s daily update had a record high for the sixth consecutive day at 341. Fourteen are hospitalized. Added Sunday were 31 cases and 18 recoveries.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 26 deaths, 2,144 cases and 1,777 recoveries.
It was merely a month ago, on Dec. 3, when the county hit a one-day record (161) of active cases that was less than half of the latest total. The county has added six deaths, 754 cases and 568 recoveries since.
Alan Wooten Bladen Journal
ELIZABETHTOWN Two deaths and 81 cases were added to Bladen County’s coronavirus tally for the combined reports of Friday and Saturday.
There are 264 cases considered active, easily topping the previous single-day high of 206 set Thursday.
The county Health Department and state Department of Health and Human Services which did not have reports on Jan. 1 because it is a state holiday released the information shortly after noon. Eighty-two cases had been added in the last four reports of 2020. The 163 cases in six days is the worst stretch the county has encountered, and is more than were recorded in all 31 reports for August.
ELIZABETHTOWN Five hundred.
That’s the number of coronavirus cases counted in December for Bladen County, its Health Department reported in daily updates throughout the month. There were 29 cases added Thursday, pushing to 82 the total in the last four days and 1,843 since the pandemic began.
The county says 206 are considered active, a single-day high topping Monday’s 204.
With 14 recoveries added, the county has logged 436 in December and 1,613 since the pandemic began. There have been 24 deaths, five of which were recorded this month to match the totals of August and September.
In adjacent counties in December, Cumberland had 23 deaths and 4,405 cases; Robeson had 27 deaths and 2,434 cases; Columbus had 12 deaths and 872 cases; Sampson had 18 deaths and 1,223 cases; and Pender had five deaths and 831 cases. In the major metropolitan counties, Mecklenburg logged 100 deaths and 18,793 cases; Wake had 55 deaths and 15,301 cases; and Guilford had 73 deaths and 7,651 cases.
ELIZABETHTOWN Bladen County’s cases outpaced recoveries in additions to the daily update on the coronavirus Wednesday.
There were 31 cases added, to 1,814 since the pandemic began; and 23 recoveries added, to 1,599. The county counts 191 cases as active, with 11 people hospitalized. That’s the most for a single day.
Twenty-four have died.
The state report removed the cluster, in its daily aggregate listing, for Bladen County that was linked to Emereau: Bladen Charter School. The school has been out since Nov. 24, when the first semester ended, and returns next week.
The state also, in its report, said there were technical issues in reporting data on Tuesday. Thus, reports for Tuesday, Wednesday and coming Thursday each are not actual 24-hour windows.
Statewide, 63,571 have received their first dose.
The county Health Department said Tuesday 183 cases are considered active. There were four cases and 25 recoveries added in the daily update. Five people are hospitalized.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 1,783 cases, 1,576 recoveries and 24 deaths. In December, the county has logged 440 cases, 399 recoveries and five deaths.
The state Department of Health and Human Services postal ZIP code report lists 601 cases in Elizabethtown and White Lake since the pandemic began; 374 in Bladenboro; 220 in Clarkton; 195 in East Arcadia; 110 in White Oak; 95 in Tar Heel; 50 in Council; 38 in Kelly; and 20 in Dublin.
There are 10 fatalities listed for the ZIP in Elizabethtown and White Lake. There have been three each in Bladenboro and East Arcadia, two in Dublin, and one each in Tar Heel, Clarkton, Council, White Oak and Kelly. The latest is not attached to a ZIP code unique to Bladen County.