Coronavirus
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – The Department of Public Health explained the apparent difference in data that showed an increase of 540 new cases Tuesday morning, a new daily record for El Paso County.
At 9:44 a.m., more than two hours after announcement in a news release that there were 215 new cases on Tuesday, the city announced in another news release that local health officials were working with the state to validate delayed local results conducted in the last three centers for weeks for disease control.
It added that “the results have been posted retroactively in the appropriate CDC week and the positivity figures for those weeks will be adjusted thereafter.”
Health officials also announced seven new deaths, bringing the death toll to 307. The last dead included …
- Man in his 40s
- 2 men in their 60s
- 2 men in their 70s
- Man in his 80s
- Woman in her 90s
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 16,936 confirmed cases in El Paso County with 12,388 reported recoveries. The number of known active cases now stands at 2441, which is a new record.
Hospitalizations increased from 198 to 215. The number of ICU patients now stands at 75, with 35 patients on ventilators.
Click here for a full view of Covid-19 data from the El Paso Department of Health.
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