Craven County has 1,594 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 11:00 a.m. on September 29, 2020. Out of the 1,594 confirmed positive cases, 1,412 of those individuals have recovered, are doing well, and are out of isolation. The recovered cases completed the necessary isolation requirement and have been free of COVID-19 symptoms for at least 24 hours. Of the 1,594 cases, 20 have been related to out of state travel, 316 are from community transmission, 1,126 are a direct contact with a previously confirmed positive case, 32 are still being investigated, and 100 are unknown. There have been 39 deaths related to COVID-19. Twelve of the active COVID-19 cases are currently hospitalized.

Three additional Craven County residents have died from complications related to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The thirty-seventh Craven County resident died on September 26, 2020. The individual was tested for COVID-19 on September 18, 2020 and resulted positive on September 22, 2020. The thirty-eighth Craven County resident died on September 27, 2020. The individual was tested on September 20, 2020 and resulted positive the same day. The thirty-ninth Craven County resident died on September 27, 2020. The individual was tested for COVID-19 on September 21, 2020 and resulted positive on September 24, 2020. All three deaths were reported to the Craven County Health Department on September 28, 2020. Each individual had underlying health conditions. To protect the privacy of each individual’s family, no further information about the individuals will be released.  

Craven County citizens are encouraged to use reputable sources of information to learn more about COVID-19 cases in Craven County and North Carolina.  Reputable sources of information include the Craven County Health Department and NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) websites. 

The Craven County Health Department works with state, commercial, and private labs to track the number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in Craven County. Health care providers determine which lab they send their COVID-19 tests to.

Craven County will continue to track and post the number of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases; however, it is important to recognize there are many people with COVID-19 who will not be included in daily counts of laboratory-confirmed cases, including: 

• People who had minimal or no symptoms and were not tested.
• People who had symptoms but did not seek medical care.
• People who sought medical care but were not tested.
• People with COVID-19 in whom the virus was not detected by testing. 

The number of laboratory-confirmed cases will increasingly provide a limited picture of the spread of infections in Craven County as COVID-19 becomes more widespread and the number of infected people who are not included in the daily counts of laboratory-confirmed cases increases.