Although Bell Countyâs active COVID-19 cases fell to 1,761 on Wednesday, local health officials identified nine more related deaths.
These latest reported deaths were for two men from Temple in their 70s, a woman from Temple in her 80s, a man from Belton in his 80s, two men from Killeen in their 40s, a man from Killeen in his 50s, a man from Killeen in his 60s and a woman in her 60s from Harker Heights, according to the Bell County Public Health District.
But Amanda Robison-Chadwell, the health districtâs director, continued to emphasize how death records are not reported to the county on the same day as the fatalities.
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The Bell County Public Health District identified eight COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday as active cases fell below 2,000 for the first time since Dec. 29.