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Thu Apr 9, 2020, 11:32 AM Apr 2020

As coronavirus cases increase in SC, town of Mount Pleasant emerges as a hotspot

Mount Pleasant has emerged as one of the state’s major coronavirus hotspots, but town leaders say residents and businesses are doing better at abiding with guidelines aimed at curbing the number of cases.

The town trails only the Camden-Lugoff area, northeast Richland County and Beaufort in the number of known and estimated undiagnosed cases, according to an analysis of state Department of Health and Environmental Control data.

“We saw pretty early-on that Mount Pleasant was a hot spot,” Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie said Wednesday.

Mount Pleasant’s two ZIP codes had a combined 586 possible cases in data released Wednesday, about 25 percent of Charleston County’s outbreak.

Read more: https://www.postandcourier.com/health/covid19/as-coronavirus-cases-increase-in-sc-town-of-mount-pleasant-emerges-as-a-hotspot/article_80eac0e4-79b6-11ea-aa5e-cf41d996902b.html

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