Nearly 10,700 people in North Carolina tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend, some of them for the second time.
The data, from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, marks the first time the state’s updated case count has included people who recovered from an initial infection of coronavirus only to be infected again.
Until now, the data presented on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard counted someone who tested positive for COVID-19 as a single case, even if that person tested positive again months later.
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