Maverick County Tops 153 Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases as Four New Cases Reported
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County Emergency Operations Center Co-Director Leopoldo “Polo” Vielma reported at the joint City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County press conference on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, that four new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maverick County, Texas were announced by the Texas Department of State Health Services, topping the total number of cases to 153.
Vielma stated that a total of 3,616 people in Maverick County have had a COVID-19 test administered with 3,064 negative results, 153 positive results, 399 are waiting test results, 53 have recovered, and two deaths as of June 10, 2020. A total of 98 people in Maverick County remain active with COVID-19 while one person remains hospitalized while one person is hospitalized as of June 10. The positivity rate in Maverick County is 4.2 percent on June 10.
COVID-19 cases have been steadily increasing in Maverick County during the past two weeks.
The State of Texas has been experiencing a surge of positive COVID-19 cases since the Memorial Day weekend in late-May as it hit a new daily high of positive COVID-19 cases with 2,504 on June 10, 2020, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The previous daily high of COVID-19 cases was 1,949 on May 31, 2020.
Texas also recorded a daily high number of hospitalized people due to COVID-19 with 2,153 on June 10, 2020, surpassing 2,056 the day before and 1,933 on Monday, June 8. Prior to this week, the previous high was May 5, 2020 with 1,888 hospitalized people.
Three factors have been identified for the surge of cases in Texas during the past two weeks, including Memorial Day holiday activities, meatpacking plant workers, and prison inmates and staff testing positive for the novel Coronavirus.
Texas has administered a total of 1,161,087 COVID-19 virus tests and another 140,962 antibody tests as of June 9, 2020 with 79,757 positive results, 1,885 Texans have died from COVID-19, and 52,449 people have recovered as of June 9, 2020.
Nationally, the United States has 21 states reporting an increase of positive COVID-19 cases including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and others.
The total number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the United States has surpassed 2 Million with 2,005,130 and 113,450 fatalities as of June 10, 2020, according to NBC News.
Public Health experts recommend that people continue practicing social distancing, wear face masks, wash one’s hands frequently, use hand sanitizer, avoid gatherings of 10 or more people, and minimize travel to essential matters.
