WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND – MARCH 12: NHS nurses wait for the next patient at a drive through Coronavirus testing site in a car park on March 12, 2020 in Wolverhampton, England. The National Health Service facility has been set up in a car park to allow people with NHS referrals to be swabbed for Covid-19. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
More than 900 Mecklenburg County residents have died due to COVID-19 and 99,467 have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.
The number of virus related deaths have risen to 903 as of Friday.
For more detailed information on COVID-19 in Mecklenburg County visit the Data Dashboard. For daily data updates visit NC DHHS's Data Dashboard.
Health leaders recently reported the first identification in a North Carolina resident of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, which was first detected in the United Kingdom in December.
The B.1.1.7 variant was identified in a sample from an adult in Mecklenburg County processed by Mako Medical Laboratories. To protect the privacy of the individual, no further information will be released.
“That’s what these viruses do,” Harris said. “They mutate.”
