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Local health authorities are toning down some pandemic safety rules for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Austin Public Health announced Tuesday.
“As more people become vaccinated in our area, we are able to move to more lenient requirements for those individuals,” Interim Austin-Travis County Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott said in a written statement Tuesday. “However, we have not yet reached herd immunity in our community. To get there, we need more people to acquire immunity which is why we encourage people to get the vaccine when it is available to them.”
People are considered fully inoculated two weeks after their last dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Austin Public Health officials.
Austin police on Wednesday identified a man who died over the weekend following a crash on Interstate 35 in North Austin.
Around 2:44 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a two-vehicle crash on the southbound lanes of I-35 near Ballwood Park, according to authorities. Police said Alejandro Cosio-Resendez, 42, was driving a silver Mercury Grand Marquis when his car struck a gray Nissan SUV that was on the shoulder of the highway.
Cosio-Resendez died at the scene, according to police, and the driver of the Nissan, who was not identified, was not injured.
Police are still investigating the crash. Cosio-Resendez s death is the 28th traffic fatality of 2021, according to authorities.
4:30 a.m. update: The officer who was shot early Friday is in the hospital and his injuries are not believed to be life threatening, Austin Police Chief Joe Chacon said.
Chacon said one suspect, described as a man in his late 20s to early 30s, was also struck by gunfire and suffered life threatening injuries, but added that the man is currently believed to be in stable condition at a medical facility.
A 911-caller around 12:03 a.m. Friday told authorities that they were in a vehicle and being chased and shot at by a different car, which Chacon described as a pickup truck. The caller was not injured in the incident, he added.