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Counties report increased COVID-19 cases
Last updated 7/24/2021 at 2:11pm
Curry and Roosevelt counties, like many others across the state and the nation, are reporting increased numbers of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.
Through Friday, Curry County had reported 81 new cases in July, three more than it recorded in all of June. Sixty-eight new cases had been reported since July 9.
In Roosevelt County, 29 new cases had been reported in July through Friday. Roosevelt recorded 19 new cases in June.
Amarillo and Lubbock health officials last week also reported an increase in COVID-19 cases as well as in hospitalizations.
Lubbock’s Covenant Health reported 22 patients were hospitalized with the virus on Thursday; the hospital had just “one or two” COVID patients a month ago, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.