Dallas County reported 2,438 cases of coronavirus, while Colin County reported 7 deaths.

Dallas County recorded a record 2,438 coronavirus cases Wednesday, as well as 12 more COVID-19 deaths.

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County Judge Clay Jenkins warned of an “unprecedented high spread” of the virus.

“Today’s number is 250 more new cases than we experience in any one day,” he said in a written statement, urging people to plan ahead to avoid congestion when the risk of transmission is high.

“Any epidemic will eventually lead to someone, even if you know it or not, the virus comes and has very bad results,” he said.

Eight of the Dallas County victims lived in Dallas – one man in his 50s, one woman in his 60s and six men in his 70s. The other victims were a Garland man in his 40s, a Seagull man in his 50s, a Richardson man in his 70s and a Cedar Hill man in his 70s.

Everyone had underlying health problems. Two victims from Dallas lived in long-term care facilities.

Of the new cases reported on Wednesday, 1,942 have been confirmed and 496 are probable. The newly reported cases bring the county’s total confirmed cases to 149,533 and potential cases to 16,697. The county reported a total of 1,391 COVID-19 deaths, a combined figure for probable and confirmed deaths.

The county said it only considers positive antigen tests (sometimes known as rapid tests) as potential cases; A few antibodies and “home” results were previously included.

Although other North Texas counties provide estimates of how many people have recovered from the virus, Dallas County officials do not report recovery, noting that federal centers for disease control and prevention do not use that metric.

Health officials use hospital admissions, intensive care admissions, and emergency room visits as key metrics to discover the real-time impact of COVID-19 in the county. In the 24-hour period that ended Tuesday, 838 COVID-19 patients were under intensive care at the county’s hospitals. During the same period, 565 ER visits were for symptoms of the disease.

Statewide data

Across the state, a further 18,007 cases and 252 seaweed-19 deaths were reported on Wednesday. Texas now has 1,519,340 reported cases and 24,394 deaths.

Of the new cases, 14,805 were confirmed and 3,202 were probable. The state has reported 1,367,965 confirmed cases and 151,375 potential cases.

The state has also added 671 old confirmed cases and 124 old potential cases recently reported by labs.

Texas hospitals have 9,528 Covid-19 patients, including 2,765 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. As of Wednesday, 17.36% of patients in the hospital area covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area were Covid-19 patients.

The statewide seven-day average positivity rate for nuclear tests, as of Tuesday, was 13.8%, based on the date of collection of the test sample. State health officials said using data based on when people were tested provided the most accurate positivity rate.

For antigen tests, the positivity rate for the same period was 9.3%.

Tarant County

Trent County reported 1,977 coronavirus cases Wednesday – its highest single-day and 13 new deaths in nearly a month.

It was the county’s tenth consecutive day of double-digit deaths.

All of the recent victims who died had underlying health problems.

The casualties included five Fort Worth residents – two women in their 60s, two men in their 70s and a woman in their 90s. Other victims were a Grand Prairie man in his 50s, a Hurst woman in her 70s, two Arlington men in her 70s, a Sansum Park man in her 70s, a Ulysses man in her 70s, a Bedford man in her 70s and Benbrook in her 90s. Women in the Decade.

The newly registered cases bring the county to a total of 124,420, including 109,273 confirmed cases, 15,147 probable cases and 90,377 recoveries. The death toll is 1,039.

As of Wednesday’s count on the county dashboard, 996 people have been hospitalized with the virus.

Colin County

The state added a total of 655 confirmed coronavirus cases to Colin County on Wednesday, bringing the number to 34,177. Seven new COVID-19 casualties were also reported – bringing the county’s death toll to 309, according to state statistics.

No details were available about the latest victims.

According to state data, cases of the virus in the county, 936. There are active cases and 30,8241 recoveries have been registered.

The county’s coronavirus dashboard is the only total hospitalized, which is now 386.

Denton County

There have been 698 coronavirus cases reported in Denton County – of which 602 are active – and five new deaths on Wednesday.

The last three deaths at Brinker Denton Senior Care Center were those of a man in his 60s and two women in his 70s.

The newly registered cases bring the county to a total of 32,285, of which 9,725 are active and 22,388 are reclaimed. The death toll is 172.

The cases reported in the new report also add up to 27,122 of the county’s total nuclear cases, compared to 5,163 antigen cases.

A record 154 COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized, according to county data. Four ICU beds are available in the county.

Other counties

The Texas State Health Services Department has handled the report for these other North Texas counties. In some counties, new data will not be reported daily.

The latest numbers are:

• Rokvall County: 4,097 confirmed cases, 43 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 6,509 confirmed cases, 101 deaths.
• Ellis County: 9,252 confirmed cases, 141 deaths.
• Johnson County: 7,711 confirmed cases, 131 deaths.

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