Despite setting single-day records of new COVID-19 cases the past few weeks, Comal County isn’t yet joining the ranks of Texas entities stepping up actions to counter the omicron variant.
Meeting Tuesday ahead of an expected and extended Christmas holiday weekend, Comal County commissioners will consider a resolution agreeing to the county’s share of a statewide opioid litigation settlement and
A 20-year-old Spring Branch woman who died from the coronavirus in January was added to Comal Countyâs COVID-19 death total on Thursday.
County officials said the woman died Jan. 4 at a San Antonio hospital, adding the fatality was one of hundreds of COVID-19 fatalities throughout the state initially attributed to counties where they occurred instead of the decedentâs county of residence.
She is the youngest county resident to die from the virus and first in the 20-29 age bracket. Seguin firefighter Roger Dean, a 31-year-old Canyon Lake resident, died at a Houston hospital on April 23. The virus has now claimed 321 residents since the first victim, 44-year-old T.J. Mendez of New Braunfels, died in March 2020.