DHHS says there have been 349 positive tests this month in the county, with one fatality.
Since the worldwide pandemic began and the first case was reported here the night of April 2, 2020, Bladen has recorded 110 deaths and 8,995 positive tests.
The original strain of COVID-19 was being detected when the first peak month in the pandemic, January of last year, had 10 deaths and 765 positive tests.
Wednesday morning, on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 19 of 3,220 counties in the U.S.
In adjacent counties to Bladen, Cumberland has had 519 deaths and 78,446 cases; Robeson has had 494 deaths and 38,761 cases; Columbus has had 251 deaths and 15,326 cases; Sampson has had 147 deaths and 17,569 cases; and Pender has had 109 deaths and 14,359 cases — a total of 1,520 deaths and 164,461 cases.
According to the coronavirus tracker of Johns Hopkins University, available on BladenJournal.com, more than 76.6 million confirmed cases and 903,000 deaths are counted in the U.S.