COVID-19 Cases Rampant in Maverick County as 62 New Confirmed Positive Cases Reported on August 18, 2020, Bringing Total to 2,925 Cases
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
COVID-19 cases continue to run rampant in Maverick County as local county officials reported 62 new confirmed positive cases and no new deaths on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 bringing the cumulative total to 2,925 cases and 69 deaths.
Eagle Pass Assistant Fire Chief and Co-Director of the Maverick County Emergency Operations Center Rodolfo “Woody” Cardona stated that a total of 13,805 people in Maverick County have been administered a COVID-19 test with 2,925 positive results, 10,564 negative results, 316 pending results, 735 active cases, 2,121 recovered, 69 deaths, 43 hospitalized patients, and the positivity rate increased to a whopping 21.6 percent.
Cardona reminded all Maverick County citizens to follow the CDC Guidelines such as wearing a face mask in public, wash hands with soap regularly, use hand sanitizer regularly, avoid gatherings, limit travel to essential matters, practice social distancing of six feet, and stay home in order to slow the transmission of COVID-19 within the county.
Maverick County has experienced an exponential growth of COVID-19 cases since Memorial Day Holiday during late-May 2020, but particularly during the months of June and July 2020 when infections and deaths skyrocketed and have not ceased as of August 18.
