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Dallas County’s COVID-19 report Sunday reflected a two-day total of 3,851 new coronavirus cases, pushing the county’s total positive results over 200,000.
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The county also announced 10 more deaths, including three Dallas residents: a man in his 50s, a woman in her 60s and a woman in her 80s.
Four Mesquite residents also died, including a woman in her 80s and three long-term-care facility residents. It’s unclear whether the three victims in long-term care — two men and a woman in their 90s — lived at the same or different facilities.
The other victims who died were a Grand Prairie man in his 50s, a Rowlett man in his 70s and a Garland woman in her 70s. Of the 10 deaths reported Sunday, all but the two men in their 50s had underlying health problems.
Sunday’s report included data from Friday and Saturday, officials said. Of the cases, 3,697 were confirmed and 154 were probable.
The newly reported cases bring the county’s total to 200,011 — 178,174 confirmed and 21,837 probable. The county’s death toll stands at 1,661.
Health officials use hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and emergency room visits as key metrics to track the real-time impact of COVID-19 in the county. The county will next provide hospitalization data Tuesday.
The county reported that over the last 30 days, 5,971 children and staff members from more than 700 K-12 schools tested positive for COVID-19. In Dallas County, 102 long-term-care facilities were experiencing active coronavirus outbreaks — the highest since the start of the pandemic, officials said.
More than two-thirds of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization have been in people under 65, and diabetes has been an underlying condition in about a third of all hospitalized patients, according to the county.
Of the county’s total confirmed COVID-19 deaths, about 22% are associated with long-term-care facilities.
Statewide data
Across the state, 16,045 more cases and 50 COVID-19 deaths were reported Sunday. Texas has now reported 1,793,341 total cases and 27,917 fatalities.
Of the new cases, 14,535 were confirmed and 1,510 were probable. The state has reported 1,582,615 confirmed cases and 210,726 probable cases.
The state also added 46 older confirmed cases and four older probable cases that were recently reported by labs.
There are 12,563 COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals, including 3,751 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
On Sunday, 23.92% of patients in the hospital region covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area were COVID-19 patients, according to the state dashboard.
The seven-day average positivity rate statewide for molecular tests, based on the date of test specimen collection, was 20.21% as of Saturday. State health officials said using data based on when people were tested provides the most accurate positivity rate.
For antigen tests, the positivity rate for the same period was 12.18%.
Tarrant County
Tarrant County reported 4,367 coronavirus cases and 13 new deaths Sunday.
The latest victims were a North Richland Hills woman in her 90s, a River Oaks woman in her 80s, a Bedford man in his 80s, a Haltom City man in his 80s, a Lakeside man in his 80s, an Arlington woman in her 70s, a Haltom City man in his 70s, a Fort Worth man and woman in their 60s, an Arlington man in his 50s, a Fort Worth man in his 50s, a White Settlement man in his 40s and an Arlington woman in her 30s. All but one victim had underlying health conditions, the county said.
The newly reported cases bring the county’s total to 157,732, including 137,518 confirmed cases, 20,214 probable cases and 114,800 recoveries. The death toll stands at 1,525.
According to Sunday’s numbers on the county dashboard, 1,399 people are hospitalized with the virus.
Collin County
The state added 942 coronavirus cases and one new COVID-19 fatality to Collin County’s totals Sunday. The county has now posted 50,954 cases and a death toll of 378.
No details about the latest victims were available.
Of the new cases, 940 were confirmed and two were probable. Collin County has recorded 45,674 confirmed cases and 5,280 probable cases. According to state data, the county has 5,365 active cases and has recorded 40,309 recoveries.
The county’s coronavirus dashboard provides only total hospitalizations, now at 527.
Denton County
Denton County officials have said they will no longer report new coronavirus data on Sundays.
As of Saturday, the county had reported 39,792 cases, including 12,952 that were active and 26,622 that were recoveries. The death toll stood at 218.
Other counties
The Texas Department of State Health Services has taken over reporting for these other North Texas counties. In some counties, new data may not be reported every day.
The latest numbers are:
- Rockwall County: 6,270 cases (5,208 confirmed and 1,062 probable), 54 deaths.
- Kaufman County: 9,306 cases (8,125 confirmed and 1,181 probable), 124 deaths.
- Ellis County: 13,261 cases (11,675 confirmed and 1,586 probable), 176 deaths.
- Johnson County: 11,135 cases (9,872 confirmed and 1,263 probable), 163 deaths.