The award provides expedited federal funding to reimburse 100 percent of costs related to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination program for a 90-day period.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Saturday the detection of one case associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom.

Fetter Health Care Network announced Friday it will host its next COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Berkeley County next week.

One of the patients who has tested positive for the new coronavirus variant from South Africa is from the Lowcountry. The other person is from the Pee Dee region.

South Carolina is ranked 10th in the nation for administering more than 61 percent of the total doses of vaccine received in the state, according to a new report.

Sixty patients and 44 employees at PruittHealth – Moncks Corner recently received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the health care facility announced Monday.

The state ranked near the bottom – 47th in the country – when it comes to the vaccination rate against COVID-19.