Local leaders gave their final COVID-19 briefing of the year Wednesday as hundreds of people sought tests with daily case numbers rising into the triple digits once again.
Local leaders gave their final COVID-19 briefing of the year Wednesday as hundreds of people sought tests with daily case numbers rising into the triple digits once again.
City, county and hospital leaders discuss spike in COVID-19 cases
and last updated 2021-07-29 01:14:18-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â With COVID-19 cases once again surging in the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and local hospitals held a briefing Wednesday to update the public and urge them to get vaccinated.
âItâs as if the virus is fighting us back, Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales said. And we know that todayâs vaccines work against this crazy mutation that is known as the Delta variant.â
The Delta variant is a mutation of the original coronavirus strain and is responsible for increases in hospitalizations and deaths across the country and here locally.