The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Thursday 1,538 new confirmed cases and five new probable cases of COVID-19, as well as two Upstate children.
DHEC also confirmed 49 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 76,315, probable cases to 291, confirmed deaths to 1,294, and 40 probable deaths.
The two additional cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 are both children age 10 or under from the Upstate. This brings the total number of MIS-C cases in South Carolina to four.