Tarrant reports 16 deaths from COVID-19, its second-highest toll in a single day; Dallas County places five dead

Dallas County on Wednesday reported 399 more coronavirus cases, including 44 from a reported backlog that went back as far as April, officials said.

The province also reported five deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Four were confirmed cases of coronavirus, the remaining case probably.

The victims included three DeSoto women, in their 40s, 70s and 80s, and two Dallas men, in their 70s and 80s.

Dallas County has recorded 66,464 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 843 deaths. It does not report any recovery from the disease.

Separately, the province also reported 2,530 probable cases, including eight probable deaths.

Statewide, Texas reported 309 new deaths from COVID-19 along with 6,474 new cases on Wednesday. There have been 10,559 deaths, 557,256 cases and an estimated 424,685 reimbursements, according to the Department of State Health Services.

State hospitalizations totaled 5,974, including 1,075 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to DSHS.

Of the 44 most recent overdue cases, 16 were from April, 26 from May and two from June. County Judge Clay Jenkins has said it is uncertain when the coding error in the state’s reporting system leading to the backlog will be fixed.

Provincial hospital officials said hospitalizations for COVID-19 remained high, with 428 reported on Tuesday. Visits to emergency rooms for symptoms of the disease totaled 480, representing approximately 22% of all visits.

“The general trend is a slow decline, and if we maintain our community resolution” to take precautions against the spread of the virus, Jenkins said in a written statement, “we will continue to see the numbers improve, fewer people get sick, more businesses stay open, more activities are allowed and our children go back to school sooner rather than later. ”

Tarrant County

The province reported 16 new coronavirus deaths Wednesday – the second-highest counts of one day by the province after 18 deaths were reported July 31. The province also reported 346 new COVID-19 cases.

Six of the last victims were residents of Fort Worth: a man in his 50s, a woman and two men in his 60s, a woman in her 70s and a man in her 90s. The remaining dead were three women from White Settlement, a Southlake woman and a North Richland Hills woman, all in their 80s; a husband and wife from Arlington, and a husband from Richland Hills, all in their 70s; a Haltom City man in his 30s; and a Bedford woman in her 60s who was the only one of 16 without underlying health conditions.

Tarrant County has reported 478 deaths and 38,822 cases, of which 1,802 are likely.

The number of hospitalizations for the virus stood at 362 on Wednesday, while the repayments were 31,094, according to provincial data.

Collin County

Seven dead were removed from the province’s total, after officials died locally Wednesday and began using data from the Department of State Health Services.

County spokesman Tim Wyatt said that “the state’s reporting may leave just a little bit,” but that the change should standardize the death toll. The change was made because the state has access to the death certificates of residents who died outside the province, he said.

The province’s dashboard still has a disclaimer stating that county officials have “no confidence” in the data it receives from the state. Officials said the data is provided as a convenience to residents.

According to the dashboard, the province had 46 new cases of coronavirus and 117 people were hospitalized on Wednesday. Overall, the province recorded 10,412 cases, 95 deaths and 5,635 recoveries.

Denton County

The province reported 106 new cases of coronavirus, but no deaths on Wednesday, bringing total COVID-19 deaths to 90.

The province reports a total of 8,690 COVID-19 cases, including 2,619 active cases and 5,981 recurrences. According to the province, 49 people are hospitalized with the virus.

The province announced that it had received more than 800 positive tests of the backlog in the state’s reporting system. The cases are older than one week and date back to June.

However, the cases will not be added to the county’s cases until they have been investigated and marked as active or recovered, said Dr Matt Richardson, director of the province’s public health.

The county received 7,048 lab results from the state, of which 893 were positive, Richardson said.

Because of the backlog, he said, the province is citing the positivity percentage data from its website because it depends on state numbers. Richardson said the data dump invalidated the metric, changing previous positive rates.

However, he said he was confident in the data coming from the province, and that the figures would help “silence the tide of disease transmission.”

“We know that normality is a goal for all of us, but we do not want our most vulnerable to suffer from disease transmission,” Richardson said. “And so we balance the delicate formula of opening up Texas and normality versus a deadly virus.”

The county announced free testing Friday at the University of North Texas Discovery Park, 3940 N. Elm St. Residents must have had symptoms in the last week, be an essential worker, be over the age of 60 or have contact with someone with COVID-19. Appointments begin at 8 a.m. Pre-registration is required by calling 940-349-2585.

Other counties

The Texas Department of State Health Services has taken over reporting for other North Texas counties. Some may not report daily updates. The latest figures are:

• Rockwall County: 1,231 cases, 18 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 2,607 cases, 32 deaths.
• Ellis County: 3,427 cases, 53 deaths.
• Johnson County: 2,327 cases, 35 deaths.

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