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residence will be determined in the event of COVID -19 deaths of individuals residing in long-term care facilities ." Without state clarification, it also remained unclear Friday whether the confusion in Orange and Durham counties may be happening elsewhere and whether deaths being reported for one county on the state 's website actually have happened in another county. Prelipp directed questions about how reporting infections and deaths might affect a county 's ability to track infections to the state Department of Health and Human Services , Meanwhile, Quintana Stewart, the Orange County health director, said Friday that a third resident at Carolina Point died April8. The resident was in his or her 70s . The two other residents there died earlier this month, she said, one on April 3 , another on April 4. Nine Carolina Point patients were hospitalized as of Friday, two more than Wednesday. As of Friday morning, Orange County had io4 coronavirus cases. Durham County had 259 cases, according to the state's website . https ://www.scribd . com/document/455764861 / NC - Gov- Roy- Cooper- s-April - 9 -2020 -order ORANGE COUNTY OUTBREAK COVID -i9 may have taken root at Carolina Point in mi&March, according to information provided by a company spokesperson and Orange County Health Department news releases. That's when the county 's Communicable Diseases team — the county 's health director, medical director and other medical professionals — responded to a request from the facility. A "strike team" from UNC Health Care and Duke University Medical Care then worked with staff to isolate potentially infected patients, teach employees recommended practices and make sure masks, gloves and other protective equipment were being used. Stewart noted those contacts in an April z news release about Carolina Point's first confirmed case . "We have been in daily communications with the facility since it became concerned about a resident with respiratory symptoms over two weeks ago," Stewart said. " Together, we have been monitoring symptomatic residents and testing suspected close contacts as needed." When asked whether that meant Orange County knew of potential infections at Carolina Point at least two weeks before the first positive test, Prelipp said she would reach out to the Communicable Diseases team to get an answer. The News & Observer wants to feature stories about NC people on the frontlines of the battle against COVID -ig. Tell us about your healthcare heroes here. The state determined who got tested, Prelipp noted , and those guidelines, in the beginning, strictly limited testing. When the two positive cases were confirmed April 1, the UNC and Duke team returned to Carolina Point, and the company placed the facility under a Code Red order. All residents were tested, a company spokesperson said in an email, although neither Prelipp nor PruittHealth's spokesperson could confirm exactly when that testing took place. PruittHealth has notified the residents ' families, the company spokesperson said.