DSHS is also encouraging providers to make accommodations for people 75 and older, who remain at the highest risk of severe disease, hospitalization and death from COVID-19.
Laredo school districts announce latest COVID-19 totals
Jan. 13, 2021
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M.S. Ryan Elementary School students have breakfast before heading to their classrooms on Aug. 24.Danny Zaragoza / Laredo Morning Times file
As Laredo continues to see difficulty during the pandemic, UISD provided its COVID-19 update for the first week of January and the winter break.
As for UISD, the district received 799 student intake reports in these past two weeks, indicating 24 positive cases for both on-campus students and those involved in extracurriculars. With the vast majority of the UISD student population remote, the district stated that there were 245 positive case reports.
At LISD, the district reported 13 positive student COVID-19 cases during the winter break during a student service committee meeting. These do not include to off-campus totals.
Laredo decimates former COVID-19 record, over 2K cases reported
Jan. 13, 2021
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A COVID-19 particle is pictured in this image provided by the CDC. A study published in the Lanced medical journal examined the case of a man who became infected with two different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in less than two months. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)CDC, HO / TNS
For those looking toward turning the page on the coronavirus in the new year, 2021 has instead brought with it a severity never before seen in the Gateway City.
Coming off a single-day record 577 positives on Tuesday, Laredo obliterated that figure and then some Wednesday. Officials from the City of Laredo and Webb County announced a staggering 2,066 new cases of COVID-19 along with three deaths.
Texas health officials on Sunday released a list of coronavirus âvaccination hubsâ that will receive the stateâs next shipment of vaccines, but none of those hubs are located in Comal or Guadalupe counties, and new cases continue to mount.
The 28 hubs, located mostly in metropolitan areas, will get 158,825 doses of the vaccine this week, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Another 38,300 doses will go to other providers across the state.
The number of doses that each provider is getting is based on its own estimate of how many people it could vaccinate in a week, DSHS officials said.