GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA)- Health experts are urging people in South Carolina to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds, practice social distancing, and wear masks in public because even though most of the economy is back open, the virus is spreading now as much as ever.
In the Upstate, the Department of Health and Enviornmental Control reports Greenville County has about 2,300 confirmed cases of Covid-19, but in reality, nearly 17,000 people could be sick, according to the department.
The percentage of tests that come back positive are also rising.
“That tells you that we’re looking at more people in the population who are sick and also perhaps we need to expand testing so that we get that number to go down as an indicator of adequacy of testing,” said S.C. state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell.
