More than 30,000 Texans have died from the coronavirus; Dallas County Records 3,549 Cases

Updated at 4:20 p.m .: Revised to include statewide data.

Dallas County reported a one-day record of 3,549 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as well as 14 additional deaths. Meanwhile, the number of Texans killed by the virus has passed 30,000, according to state data.

Hospitalizations in both Dallas County and statewide also set new highs, with the latest figure reaching 14,000 for the first time.

Nine of the last Dallas County residents to die lived in Dallas: a woman in her 40s, three men and two women in their 60s, two men in their 60s, and a man in his 40s. The other victims were two residents of Highland Park, a man in his sixties and a woman in his sixties; two Mesquite men, in their fifties and sixties; and a DeSoto man in his fifties.

All 14 had underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk for complications from the virus, officials said.

County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement that North Texans are now in “the most difficult time for the spread of COVID.” He said residents need to help limit the spread to ensure health workers are able to administer vaccinations as quickly as possible.

“Activities that seemed safe to you weeks ago are a lot less safe now,” he says. “The job of protecting and reducing the spread of COVID lies with all of you.”

Dallas County’s previous daily record for new cases of 3,194 was reported on Saturday.

Of the new cases reported Tuesday, 2,979 have been confirmed and 570 probable. The newly reported cases bring the total number of confirmed cases in the county to 197,359 and probable cases to 25,276. The county has recorded a total of 1,791 deaths from COVID-19.

The county said it only counted positive antigen tests (sometimes called rapid tests) as probable cases; some results on antibodies and “households” have been included previously.

While other counties in North Texas provide estimates of how many people have recovered from infections, Dallas County officials do not, noting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not use this metric. .

Health officials are using hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and emergency room visits as key indicators to track the real-time impact of COVID-19 in the county. In the 24-hour period that ended Monday, a record 1,226 patients with COVID-19 were in acute care at county hospitals. During the same period, 462 emergency room visits were for symptoms of the disease.

State-wide data

Statewide, an additional 26,052 cases and 286 deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Tuesday. Of the added cases, 25,301 were new and 751 were older cases recently reported by labs.

Texas has now reported 1,995,292 total cases and 30,219 deaths.

Of the new cases, 22,110 were confirmed and 3,191 were probable. The state has reported 1,753,059 confirmed cases and 242,233 probable cases.

There was a record 14,218 COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals, including 4,158 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. As of Monday, 25.7% of patients in the hospital region covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area were COVID-19 patients, according to the state’s dashboard.

The statewide seven-day average positivity rate for molecular testing, based on the date of sample collection, was 18.4% on Monday. State health officials have said using data based on when people were tested provides the most accurate rate of positivity.

For antigen tests, the positivity rate for the same period was 12.3%.

Tarrant County

Tarrant County reported 1,817 coronavirus cases and 30 new deaths on Tuesday.

Nine of the latest victims lived in Fort Worth: two men and a woman in their sixties, two men in their sixties, three men in their 80s and a woman in her sixties. Eight others were from Arlington: a woman in their sixties, a man and two women in their sixties, a man in their sixties and a man and two women in their sixties.

The other victims were four women from Mansfield, two in their sixties, one in her 70s and one in her 90s; two residents of North Richland Hills, a man in his sixties and a woman in his sixties; an Azle man in his 90s; a woman from Bedford in her 90s; a Burleson man in his sixties; an Euless man in his 70s; a man from Haltom City in his sixties; a Richland Hills man in his sixties; and a man from White Settlement in his 80s.

All but one had underlying high-risk health conditions, health officials said.

The new cases reported bring the county total to 180,794: 156,876 confirmed cases and 23,918 probable cases. There were 128,406 recoveries. The death toll stood at 1762.

According to figures on Tuesday’s county dashboard, 1,469 people have been hospitalized with the virus.

Collin County

The state added 1,098 coronavirus cases and six new COVID-19 deaths to Collin County’s totals on Tuesday. The county has now recorded 58,968 cases and 428 deaths.

No details on the latest casualties were available.

Of the new cases, 692 were confirmed and 406 were probable. Collin County has recorded 51,840 confirmed cases and 7,128 probable cases. According to state data, the county recorded 45,846 recoveries.

The county’s coronavirus dashboard only provides total hospitalizations, currently at 561.

Denton County

Denton County reported 579 coronavirus cases on Tuesday – of which 542 were active.

No new deaths were reported, leaving the county’s death toll at 237.

The newly reported cases brought the county total to 44,158, with 13,495 ongoing and 30,426 in recovery. They also brought the total number of molecular cases to 35,964 and the antigen cases to 8,194.

There were 222 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, the county reported.

Other counties

The Texas Department of State Health Services have resumed reporting for these other North Texas counties. In some countries, new data may not be communicated every day.

The latest numbers are:

• Rockwall County: 7,782 cases (6,517 confirmed and 1,265 probable), 61 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 10,975 cases (9,581 confirmed and 1,394 probable), 144 deaths.
• Ellis County: 15,676 cases (13,833 confirmed and 1,843 probable), 187 deaths.
• Johnson County: 13,401 cases (11,941 confirmed and 1,460 probable), 187 deaths.