BREAKING NEWS! Maverick County Surges to 311 Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases with 16 New Reported Cases on June 25, 2020
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County joins the State of Texas and the United States with a rapidly surging number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases as the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 16 new cases on Thursday, June 25, 2020, raising the total to 311 cases, announced Rodolfo “Woody” Cardona, Eagle Pass Deputy Fire Chief and Co-Director of the Eagle Pass and Maverick County Emergency Operations Center.
Cardona stated a total of 5,336 people in Maverick County have had the COVID-19 test administered with 4,692 negative results, 311 positive results, 333 waiting for test results, 81 recovered, 228 active cases, two deaths from COVID-19, 11 people hospitalized, and the positivity rate increased to 5.8 percent.
Texas reported its highest daily number of positive COVID-19 cases on Thursday, June 25, 2020, with 5,996 new cases, raising the total number of cases to 131, 917 statewide. A total of 47 Texans died from COVID-19 on June 25, bringing the statewide total to 2,296. A total of 74,496 people in Texas have recovered from COVID-19.
Texas reported a total of 4,739 people hospitalized due to COVID-19 on June 25, 2020, pressing its hospital capacity to capacity in many communities such as San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Laredo, Dallas, and others.
While Governor Greg Abbott publicly touts that Texas has sufficient hospital beds to handle the surge of COVID-19 cases, many hospital administrators and public health experts are privately expressing serious reservations about the current surge of cases will overwhelm the Texas health care system. The number of positive COVID-19 cases have been increasing in Texas since the Memorial Day weekend holiday in May 2020.
