Maverick County Reports Five New Positive COVID-19 Cases, Increasing Total to 57 Cases
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Despite Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order to reopen the Texas economy and businesses, Texas continues to experience an increase of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases as it reaches seven consecutive days of over 1,000 daily positive cases of the lethal virus, bringing the total number of known cases to 43,851 with 1,216 fatalities in the Lone Star State.
Texas Department of State Health Services reported the highest single-day increase in Coronavirus deaths and cases on Thursday, May 14, 2020, with 58 new deaths related to COVID-19 and 1,448 new positive COVID-19 cases statewide. There are 18,148 active positive COVID-19 cases in Texas as of May 14, 2020. The statewide increase of positive COVID-19 cases is happening just as Texas is doing more tests throughout the state.
The City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas are no exception as its number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases continue to steadily increase as they conduct more tests within the county.
On Thursday, May 14, 2020, Denis Nemeth, PA-C, a volunteer with the joint Eagle Pass and Maverick County Emergency Operations Committee announced at a press conference that five new positive cases had been reported by state health officials, raising the total number of positive COVID-19 cases to 57 with 1,173 people tested, 723 negative results, 57 positive results, 393 waiting results, 14 recovered, and no fatalities.
Nemeth noted that Maverick County COVID-19 Test Centers have been doing more tests in the last two weeks as the number of positive cases have steadily increased in the county.
