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San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg holds a press conference with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff along with city and county leaders and health officials following a rise in the COVID-19 positivity rate on Wednesday, July 14 2021
San Antonio and Bexar County leaders are strongly urging people to get fully vaccinated as both the positivity rate among COVID-19 tests in Bexar County doubled and hospitalizations dramatically increased over the last week.
The positivity rate and 7-day average of new cases are at 11.2% and 265 cases per day, according to data released by San Antonio Metro Health on Wednesday. Last week’s data showed a positivity rate of 5.4% and 126 average cases per day. The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 also jumped from 155 to 258 in the span of a week.
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