COVID-19 pandemic in South Carolina

COVID-19 pandemic in South Carolina
Warning sign in Mount Pleasant, March 2020
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	South Carolina, U.S.
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	March 7, 2020 Charleston and Kershaw counties
Confirmed cases	1,605,165
Suspected cases‡	314,702
Hospitalized cases	20,725 (total)[1]
Deaths	18,192
Government website
www.scdhec.gov/covid19
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of South Carolina in March 2020. On April 2, 2020, DHEC announced that the virus had spread to all 46 counties in the state.^[2] During the month of June the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in South Carolina increased nearly five-fold, from 293 on June 1 to 1,398 on June 30, and continued to increase during July and into August.^[3] As of August 2022 the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has confirmed 1,605,165 cases in the state and 18,192 deaths.^[4]

As of August 2022 69.2% of the residents age 12 or older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, 59% have completed the vaccine series.^[4]