FROM STAFF REPORTS

The Iredell County Health Department reported the county’s 323rd death attributed to COVID-19 on Thursday afternoon. Health officials do not release personal information about individuals who test positive, including those who pass away.

With the addition of 52 new laboratory confirmed cases on Thursday, there have been a total of 28,838 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Iredell since the onset of the pandemic.

The number of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Iredell hospitals has continued to decline over the past three weeks. As of Thursday afternoon, a total of 23 people who have tested positive were hospitalized across the county.