Comal County is waiting for news on when the COVID-19 vaccine might arrive locally, health officials told commissioners on Thursday morning as the countyâs death toll from the pandemic climbed to 141.
Cheryl Fraser, director of public health, told Comal County commissioners during their Thursday meeting that both deaths were people from New Braunfels, with one a woman in her 80s who passed away on Dec. 14 and the other a man in his 70s who passed away on Dec. 1. The county has added 13 deaths to its data in the month of December so far.
The county added an additional 72 cases of the virus to its tally, with 49 of those cases confirmed and the other 23 probable. The county has now reported 5,576 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic arrived locally in March.Â