North Carolina has its first case of coronavirus from community spread, Gov. Roy Cooper said in a press conference Thursday afternoon
At least 97 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in North Carolina, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
The latest count was updated just before 10 a.m. Thursday. It’s not clear whether the number includes the new cases out of Mecklenburg County, which have reached 30 in total.
“This is an expected but still an unfortunate benchmark in this pandemic,” Cooper said of the first community spread-related coronavirus case in the state, which was in Wilson County.
Community spread, state leaders say, is “where we don’t know how someone contracted COVID-19.”
“Wilson County’s second confirmed presumptive positive has no know travel history and no known contact with another presumptive positive person,” Wilson County officials tweeted.
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