By Jason Evans

Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — Pickens County administrator Ken Roper has been talking about the county’s COVID-19 numbers for months now.

KEN ROPER

On Friday, he had some good news to share in a Facebook Live update video.

“The slope (of cases), the rise over the run, has started to level off a little bit,” Roper said. “That’s good. It tells us that we’re not getting cases as quickly as we were a couple of months back.”

The county’s number of cases that DHEC considered active has also started to decline, he said.

“Active cases are cases where you’ve had a positive test for COVID-19 within the last 14 days,” Roper said. “The active cases

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