In Dallas County, 3,303 more cases of coronavirus have been reported, killing 6 people; Trent County has 1,305 new cases, 5 deaths reported

Updated at 3:34 p.m.: Improved to include state data.

Dallas County reported 3,303 more coronavirus cases and six COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.

The latest deaths were a woman in her 40s, a man in her 50s, a man in her 60s, a man in her 80s, and a man in her 90s who were all residents of Dallas and were hospitalized. The sixth victim was a 50-year-old Mesquite man who was hospitalized. The county said all six victims had underlying health problems.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Sunday’s COVID-19 report included Thursday, Friday, and Saturday cases, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said.

“When you spread it out in three days, we had lower-than-average numbers from last week, and with most testing facilities shutting down on Thursdays and Fridays, that probably indicates fewer people being tested,” Jenkins said.

Of the cases reported on Sunday, 3,083 were confirmed and 220 are probable.

They increase the county’s total confirmed cases to 126,006 and potential cases to 12,090. The county reported 1,209 confirmed COVID-19 and 32 potential COVID-19 deaths.

The county has announced that it is considering only positive antigen tests (called 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 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not use that metric.

The county reports that during the November 15-21 period, 1,282 school-age children tested positive for COVID-19.

More than two-thirds of hospitalized cases confirmed so far are among people under the age of 65, and according to the county, one-third of hospitalized patients have an underlying condition of diabetes.

County’s latest reporting period, November. The daily new confirmed and probable cases for 15-21 had a seven-day average of 1,405 – 53.3 daily new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The figure is calculated by the date of COVID-19 test collection, according to the county.

Dallas County does not provide a positive rate for all COVID-19 tests conducted in the area; County health officials said they do not have an accurate count of how many tests are performed each day. But according to the county’s most recent reporting period, 17% of people who appeared in hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms tested positive for the virus. That’s an increase of 16.8% over the previous reporting period.

The county said Sunday that 20 active “clusters” of homeless shelters and group homes have been reported in the last 30 days, with a total of 167 cases of coronavirus reported. There were confirmed cases at one facility last week, the county said.

In the last 10 days, 818 Covid-19 cases have been reported from 90 long-term care facilities, the county said Sunday. Of these cases, 29 have died and 48 have been hospitalized.

Of the county’s total confirmed COVID-19 deaths, about 23% are associated with long-term care facilities.

Statewide data

Across the state, 6,041 more cases and 48 Covid-19 deaths were reported on Sunday. Of the 4,411 new cases, the state counts 13 older cases as older, with one in Ellis County and one in Kaufman County.

Texas now has 1,157,273 confirmed cases and 21,357 casualties.

Texas hospitals have 8,634 COVID-19 patients, including 2,375 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Of all hospitals in the 19-county hospital area covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 15.6% have COVID-19 patients, according to state data, according to state data. Sunday was the third day when the State In the executive order of the executive, G.V. Crossed the 15% threshold set by Greg Abbott, stating that if they are in an area where more than 15% of businesses must return to 75% to 50% capacity. The hospital bed is occupied by COVID-19 patients for seven days in a row.

After many record-setting days the sector hit the first 15% threshold on Friday.

The statewide seven-day average positivity rate was 11.1% as of Saturday. State health officials said using data based on when people were being tested provided the most accurate positivity rate.

The state also provides a positive rate based on when the laboratory results were reported; It was up 11.33% every Saturday.

Officials previously calculated Texas ’coronavirus positivity rate by splitting the most recent seven-day new test results into new positive test results. With that move, the positivity rate is now 9.4%, according to the state dashboard.

A spokesman for the Texas State Health Services Department said positivity rate data based on lab results and new cases may be released in phases but is being provided for the purpose of transparency and consistency.

Tarant County

Trent County reported 1,305 coronavirus cases and five new deaths on Sunday.

Recent deaths include a man in the 90s and a man in Fort Worth in the 70s, a woman in her 80s and a man from Arlington in the 70s, and a man in the 60s with an unknown address. Everyone had underlying health problems.

The newly registered cases bring the county to a total of 97,294, including 86,052 confirmed cases, 11,242 potential cases and 68,950 recoveries. The death toll is 84 843.

Colin County

The state reported 626 cases of coronavirus in Colin County on Saturday, bringing the total to 26,192 in the county. A new COVID-19 casualty was also reported, bringing the death toll to 253.

No details were available about the latest victim.

According to state data, the county has 3,295 active cases and 22,897 recovery logged.

A total of 276 hospital admissions, according to the county dashboard.

Denton County

Denton County officials have said they will no longer report new coronavirus data on Sunday.

As of Saturday, the county reported 23,276 cases, of which 5,523 were active and 17,605 were recoveries. The death toll was 148.

Other counties

The Texas State Health Services Department has handled the report for these other North Texas counties. In some counties, new data is not reported every day.

The latest numbers are:

• Rokvall County: 2,994 cases, 37 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 4,900 cases, 80 deaths.
• Ellis County: 6,898 cases, 115 deaths.
• Johnson County: 5,407 cases, 105 deaths.

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