The Dallas County Health Department is reporting 460 confirmed cases of the virus with a newly confirmed COVID-19 death Monday.
Of the 60,660 cases reported Monday, Dallas County officials said Texas is the backlog of state health services, with nine coming from June, 1,159 coming from July and 67,767 earlier this month. The remaining 225 cases are new.
The county reported Monday the death of a man in his 50s who suffered from an underlying health condition and was found dead at his Dallas home.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the average number of daily cases continues to decline and he will unveil an updated chart showing the 7-day rolling based on test collection dates on Tuesday – which will remove added cases from the DSHS. Backlog – as well as new data on hospital admissions and ER visits.
“Trends are moving in the right direction, but we should avoid wearing masks, social distance, hand washing and unnecessary travel and indoor places where masks cannot be worn 100% of the time.”
The county has now accumulated 70,376 cases of the virus since testing began in March. Estimated by the state as of Friday, 87,087. With recovery being reported, Dallas County also has approximately 1,118 active cases. Dr. Virus, director of Las County Health and Human Services. According to Philip Huang, there have been 895 confirmed deaths due to the virus in the county, which is now the third leading cause of death in the county behind heart and cancer diseases. Since March 20, the date of the first COVID-19 related death in Dallas County, there have been an average of 5.5 deaths per day in the county.
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