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100 to 199 200 or more Beginning on Mar. 3, 2020, with the first reported case of COVID19 in Wake County, the coronavirus has spread across North Carolina. Here's a look at the cumulative number cases by day as reported by NC DHHS and county health departments, BY KEVIN KEISTER NURSING HOMES AFFECTED STATEWIDE Both Carolina Point and Signature HealthCARE in Chapel Hill, where another outbreak of initially three cases was reported Wednesday, have been rated as "much below average""by the S. Department of Health and Human Services . By Friday, confirmed cases as Signature HeathCARE had risen to 31, with two hospitalizations, Stewart said. Inspections show problems at both facilities, including one incident last year in which a resident was found in a drainage ditch near Carolina Point early on a cold morning. Prelipp said Carolina Point was receptive from the beginning to the Communicable Diseases team's recommendations, telling Stewart that it already had implemented a recommendation "or they were working on it or it was in progress." She referred specific questions about what happened at Carolina Point and the residents and staff who were infected to the Communicable Diseases team. The leader of that team has not yet responded to a request through Prelipp for an interview. It is common knowledge that long-term care facilities would face a higher risk from the virus, Prelipp said. Everyone in a facility can be tested once there are two infected people, she noted. "It's an added complication that this is a disease that presents as respiratory accompanied by fever, and you've got people in long-term care facilities with many health complications, and we're still in flu season, we really still are at this point, pollen season, you name it," she said. " It's just so complicated." Here's how you can send us your news tips securely. Staffwriters Steve Wiseman and Brian Murphy contributed to this story.