Maverick County Reports Three Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases, Total Grows to 149
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Not even the searing Texas-Mexico border summer heat stops the lethal novel Coronavirus from spreading in Maverick County despite consecutive days with over 100 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures.
City of Eagle Pass Fire Department Deputy Chief and Maverick County Emergency Operations Center Co-Director Rodolfo Cardona announced at the joint City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County press conference on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 that three new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases were reported in Maverick County by the Texas Department of State Health Services, growing the total number of cases to 149.
Cardona stated that a total of 3,494 people have been administered a COVID-19 test in Maverick County with 2,936 negative results, 149 positive results, 409 pending test results, 51 have recovered, and two deaths as of June 9, 2020.
Cardona noted that Maverick County has received partial test results of the three nursing home and rehabilitation centers in Eagle Pass and are awaiting to receive all the results in the immediate future. To date, Maverick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had only four staff members infected with COVID-19 while none of the residents or patients tested positive. The four positive staff members have fully recovered, said Cardona. The other two centers have received partial results with all being negative thus far, but more results are pending.
The State of Texas continues to see an increase of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases with a total of 77,253, 1,853 Texans have died, and a total of 1,147,355 virus tests have been administered as well as 138,784 antibody tests as of June 8, 2020. A total of 2,056 Texans are hospitalized due to COVID-19 and a total of 51,140 people have recovered as of June 9, 2020.
Currently, Texas is experiencing a surge of positive COVID-19 cases where there are meatpacking plants such as Moore County in the Texas Panhandle region and in counties with state prisons such as Walker and Jones.
Nationally, several states are experiencing a surge of positive COVID-19 cases such as Arizona, Arkansas, California, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland. A total of 1.9 Million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19 and 112,123 deaths have resulted from COVID-19 as of June 9, 2020, according to the New York Times.
Globally, Latin American countries are being hit hard by COVID-19 cases including Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Caribbean nations. Most countries are underreporting the severity of the novel Coronavirus afflicting them and the true number of deaths attributed to the deadly virus. There are a total of 7.3 Million confirmed positive COVID-19 cases worldwide with 412,000 deaths due to COVID-19 worldwide.
Updated 06/10/20 7:50 A.M.
