Maverick County Reports Four New Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases, Total is 146 Cases
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo announced at the joint press conference between Maverick County and the City of Eagle Pass, Texas held on Monday, June 8, 2020 that four new confirmed positive cases were reported by the Texas Department of State Health Services, bringing the total number of positive cases to 146 in Maverick County.
County Judge Saucedo stated a total of 3,384 people in Maverick County have been administered the COVID-19 test with 2,627 negative results, 146 positive results, 611 are waiting for test results, 45 have recovered, and two deaths as of June 8, 2020.
As 45 people have recovered, there are 101 active cases of COVID-19 in Maverick County as of June 8, 2020. There is one person with COVID-19 hospitalized in Maverick County as of June 8, 2020.
Saucedo noted that all three nursing and rehabilitation centers in Eagle Pass had completed their COVID-19 tests by the Texas National Guard last week with no negative test results at the Maverick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, signaling that the four previous staff members who had tested positive at Maverick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had already recovered. The other two nursing and rehabilitation centers have had partial return of their test results with all coming out negative thus far.
Saucedo noted that the negative test results for the three nursing and rehabilitation centers in Eagle Pass made him happy and excited to learn that there is not any community spread of COVID-19 in those centers.
Eagle Pass Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes noted that the positivity rate of test results has decreased in Maverick County from almost 6 percent to its current lower rate of 4.3 percent, as of June 8, 2020. Sifuentes added that while significantly more people have gotten tested in Maverick County, the positive test results have been lowered to 4.3 percent although overall the positive number of COVID-19 cases have increased.
Meanwhile, the State of Texas is seeing an increase of positive COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospitalizations during the past two weeks. As of June 8, 2020, Texas has a total of 1,120,316 people administered a COVID-19 virus test and another 135,583 people have had antibody tests with a total of 75,616 people testing confirmed positive for COVID-19, 1,836 Texans have died from COVID-19, 1,935 are hospitalized, and 50,439 have recovered.
Nationally, there are a total of 1,962,782 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the United States and a total of 111,635 fatalities as of June 8, 2020, according to NBC News. Several states are reporting an increase of COVID-19 cases including California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
