Denton County on Thursday surpassed 10,000 estimated active coronavirus infections for the first time.
Denton County Public Health announced Thursday another 836 county residents had tested positive for the virus, raising the cumulative infection count to 33,121, of whom 10,329 were estimated to still be infected.
That means roughly 31.2% of all the people confirmed to have the virus in the county over the past 40 weeks were concurrently infected Thursday, according to DCPH estimates.
Of the newly infected residents, 122 live in Denton, 117 in Lewisville and 95 in unincorporated Denton County.
Additionally, DCPH confirmed another eight residentsâ deaths were caused by COVID-19.
Six of them were residents of the Senior Care Health & Rehabilitation Center in Denton, which on Wednesday had another three residents reported dead of the disease.
Two were women in their 40s, one from Lewisville and the other from Little Elm.
People in their 40s made up only 5.23% of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Denton County by Wednesday, according to DCPH, and nobody under 40 had been confirmed killed by the disease in the county.
The other three people included in Wednesdayâs announcement were residents of Senior Care Health & Rehabilitation Center in Denton. Two were women in their 70s and one was a man in his 60s.
DCPH does not release further identifying information about those killed by the disease.
As of Wednesday, DCPH had confirmed 172 locals had been killed by COVID-19. The Texas Department of State Health Services, on the other hand, had confirmed 274 such deaths in the county by the same time.