At least 48 of North Carolina’s 100 counties are now in the “red” zone on the state’s COVID-19 risk map ... and Macon counties, meanwhile, are in the yellow zone. Buncombe County ...

Now at least 42 counties are in the red zone, with 25 or more cases per 100,000 people. The map ... County near the coast and Alexander and Mitchell counties in Western North Carolina have ...

Mecklenburg County ... Macon and Madison. The wide variance had led to calls to reopen parts of the state ahead of others. Earlier in May, leaders from eight counties in Eastern North Carolina ...