City of Eagle Pass, Texas Receives Notice of Third Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Test During Emergency Meeting

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020

Eagle Pass Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes announced in the middle of an emergency City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 5:46 P.M. that the City of Eagle Pass had just received notice of a third confirmed positive COVID-19 test of an individual within the community after City Manager George Antuna handed him the notice.

The Eagle Pass City Council was holding an emergency meeting to discuss and take possible action to amend its previous Declaration of Disaster Public Health Emergency to provide stricter restrictions such as Stay as Home and others measures when Mayor Sifuentes was handed a note from the Texas Department of State Health Services confirming a third positive COVID-19 test within the community, stunning City Council members in attendance and deliberating whether to approve the stricter Stay at Home measures. The City Council shortly thereafter went into Executive Session to discuss with the City Attorney the pending resolution under consideration at the emergency meeting.

The City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County has now received two confirmed positive tests of individuals in the community on the same day of Tuesday, March 31, 2020, confirming that there is community spread of COVID in Eagle Pass and Maverick County.