Dallas County Friday reported 1,849 cases of coronavirus, all of which are considered new. Twenty new COVID-19 deaths have also been reported.
County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement that this week has indeed been the deadliest district in the epidemic. Over the past three days alone, county officials have reported 83 deaths from COVID-19.
Of the recent deaths, 12 were residents of Dallas. These victims were six women – one in her 40s, two in her 50s, one in her 60s, one in the 80s and one in the 1990s – and six men – two in their 60s, two in their 70s, and one in their 80s. In his 90s.
Three other victims lived in Mesquite – a man in his 50s, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 90s. The other five are two men from Desoto, one in his 60s and the other in his 80s. Cedar Hill man in his forties; A woman in the Great Prairie in her 50s; And a farmer branch man in his eighties.
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Of the new cases reported on Friday, 1,353 were confirmed and 496 probable cases. The recently reported cases brought the total confirmed cases in the county to 141,303 and probable cases to 14922. The county recorded 1,315 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and 52 likely deaths from the disease.
The county recently announced that it only counted positive antigen tests (sometimes called rapid tests) as potential cases; A few of the antibody and “home” results have been included before.
While other North Texas counties provide estimates of how many people have recovered from the infection, Dallas County officials Do not report refunds, Indicating that the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not use this scale.
Health officials are using hospitalization, intensive care admission and emergency room visits as key metrics to track the real-time impact of COVID-19 in the province. In the 24-hour period ending Thursday, 791 patients of COVID-19 were in acute care in district hospitals. During the same period, there were 501 emergency visits to screen for symptoms of the disease.
Statewide data
Across the state, 14,547 more coronavirus cases and 240 COVID-19 deaths were reported on Friday.
On Friday, the Texas Department of Health updated its COVID-19 dashboard to include potential cases as well as confirmed cases. Among the newly reported cases, 11,842 were confirmed and 2,705 were probable cases.
The cases added on Friday were considered new, except for 319 confirmed cases and 81 probable cases. In addition to the potential cases added on Friday, the state’s new potential case count includes 137,419 older cases.
“At the beginning of the epidemic, we did not have antigen tests. Jennifer Schuford, Medical Officer for Infectious Diseases at DSHS, said in a video linked to the dashboard, that the only tests that we have had that can give us information about active and infectious infections are the molecular tests.” Since then. Time, however, many antigen tests have been developed and become widely available, which gives us another way to detect active and contagious infections in Texas. “
Texas now reports 1,448,002 coronavirus cases – 1,307,878 confirmed and 140,124 probable cases. The death toll in the state was 23,551.
There are 9,109 patients with COVID-19 in Texas hospitals, including 2,571 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The country also retired from two methods it previously used to calculate its positivity rate. One method was based on when the country was notified of laboratory results, while the other method was based on reporting dates for cases.
The case will continue to report positivity rates based on the date the test samples were collected, but will now differentiate the rates between molecular tests and antigen tests.
Molecular tests are what Dallas County officials refer to as confirmed cases. Antigen tests, which yield faster results but are not as accurate as molecular tests, are what the county health department calls “potential cases”.
“We see more and more [antigen tests] “It’s done, we want to be able to see what their positivity rate looks like,” Chris Van Deussen, a state health department spokesman, said in another video. “These changes are a continuation of our commitment to provide the best and most accurate data possible on COVID-19.”
The positive rate for the molecular tests stood at 13.1% as of Wednesday. State health officials said using data based on when people were tested provides the most accurate positivity rate. The rate of positivity for antigen tests as of Wednesday was 8.9%.
Tarrant County
Tarrant County Friday recorded 1,455 cases of coronavirus and 20 new deaths. It was the fifth consecutive day for the county with double-digit deaths.
Already this week, county officials announced 75 COVID-19 deaths.
The most recent deaths included six Fort Worth residents – a woman in her 20s, a man in his 50s, a man and two women in her 80s, and a woman in her 90s.
Five other victims lived from Tarrant County in Mansfield – a man in his 60s, a man in his seventies, two men and a woman in his eighties. Three of the dead were Arlington men in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
The remaining six victims are a Hearst woman in her 50s, a Watauga woman in her 60s, a Crowley woman in her 70s, a North Richland Hills man in his 70s, a Benbrook woman in her 80s, and a Grand Prairie woman in her 80s Her age.
The newly reported cases brought the province’s total to 116,931 – 103,113 confirmed and 13,818 probable cases. There were 84,318 recoveries. The death toll reached 947.
According to Friday’s figures on the provincial dashboard, 919 people in hospitals have been infected with the virus.
Collin County
The state added 506 coronavirus cases to the total of Collin County on Friday, bringing the number to 31,269. Four new deaths from COVID-19 were also reported, bringing the count’s death toll to 295.
No details were available on the latest casualties.
According to state data, the county had 3,987 active infections and recorded 27,282 recoveries.
The county Coronavirus Dashboard provides a total number of hospitalizations, now at 351.
Denton County
Denton County reported 886 coronavirus cases – of which 684 were active – and four new deaths on Friday.
Two of the most recent victims were in long-term care facilities – a man in his 60s who lived at a subsidized living center in Denton and a woman in her eighties who lived at the Cross Timbers Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Flower Mound.
The newly reported cases brought the county total to 29,463, including 8,795 active cases and 20,503 recovered. The death toll was 165.
The newly reported cases also raised the count’s total molecular cases to 24,815, while the number of antigen cases reached 4,648.
There were 131 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, according to county data. Only 10 of the district’s 87 ICU beds were available.
Other provinces
The Texas Department of Health Services is responsible for reporting on other North Texas counties. In some counties, new data may not be reported every day.
The latest numbers are:
- Rockwall County: 4,627 cases, 42 deaths.
- Kaufman County: 6,919 cases, 96 deaths.
- Ellis County: 9,635 injuries, 137 deaths.
- Johnson County: 7,959 cases, 126 deaths.
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