Maverick County Adds 114 New Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases on July 24, 2020, Bringing Total to 1,554 Cases and 26 Deaths in Deadliest Week
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County recorded its deadliest week to date during July 19-24, 2020 regarding the highest total number of deaths related to COVID-19 with 10 local citizens succumbing to the silent and invisible novel coronavirus while another 385 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases were reported during the same week, bringing the total number to 26 deaths and 1,554 cases.
On Friday, July 24, 2020, the last reporting date for the week, Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo announced that a total of 114 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and no new deaths were reported in Maverick County by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Judge Saucedo stated that as of July 24, 2020, the totals in Maverick County include 10,108 people being tested for COVID-19 with 1,554 positive results, 7,966 negative results, 588 waiting for test results, 729 recovered, 799 active cases, 26 deaths, 50 hospitalized patients, and the positivity rate increased to 16.3 percent.
Saucedo noted that of the 50 hospitalized patients at Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in the county, there were 18 people in the Intensive Care Unit with 15 positive and three waiting for test results, another 32 people were in the Medical Floor with 21 positive and 11 waiting for test results, and another 14 people in the Emergency Room with six positive and eight waiting for test results on July 24.
The next COVID-19 reporting date for Maverick County is until Monday, July 27, 2020. It is expected that one or more fatalities will be announced on July 27 according to reliable sources that these COVID-19 related deaths occurred after the 5 P.M. reporting deadline on Friday, July 24.
The COVID-19 virus has caused the death of men and women of all ages in Maverick County, including many notable citizens, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, and grandparents. The deadly virus does not discriminate on who it infects.
Eagle Pass Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes stated that all Maverick County residents need to protect and take care of themselves and loved ones by following the CDC Guidelines of wearing a face mask in public, washing one’s hands with soap regularly, use hand sanitizer regularly, avoid gatherings with 10 or more people and limit gatherings to one’s immediate family, practice social distancing of six or more feet apart, limit travel to essential matters, and stay home. These measures are the best available to slow and stop the community spread of COVID-19 in Maverick County since there is no vaccine yet to treat the coronavirus.
Mayor Sifuentes added that a majority of the infections in Maverick County have arisen from gatherings and community spread among families. Sifuentes pleaded with all Maverick County residents to limit gatherings to one’s immediate household family and avoid gatherings with people outside one’s home to avoid the spread of the coronavirus in the community.
