Union County, NC
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As of May 12, 2023, laboratories and providers are no longer required to report individual cases or deaths of COVID-19 to state or local health departments. COVID-19 case and death data is no longer updated on the NC DHHS dashboard.
For specific questions related to COVID-19 and your personal health, please consult with your primary care doctor.
North Carolina has a strong respiratory disease surveillance network. Indicators that provide timely data for public health action will continue to be updated weekly on the NC DHHS dashboard, including:
- Syndromic surveillance data through NC DETECT
- Sentinel surveillance through the hospital-based public health epidemiologist network
- Wastewater surveillance
These systems will be used to continue to monitor trends in COVID-19 moving forward.
Additionally, state level vital records data for COVID-19-associated deaths will continue to be available through the National Center for Health Statistics and posted on the NC DHHS dashboard monthly.
Tracking and Dashboards
Test Kits
Union County Human Services will distribute COVID-19 testing kits on Thursdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Human Services building drive-thru located at 2330 Concord Ave. while supplies last.
For more COVID-19 information, visit NCDHHS.
Wastewater Surveillance
As of Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, Union County Water and Public Health are participating in a wastewater surveillance project to assess and monitor COVID-19 levels in our community. This project is part of a regional and statewide effort to increase wastewater surveillance efforts and is a collaboration between Union County and University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which will be processing and analyzing the samples. Read the full story here.