Dallas County reports 2,292 coronavirus cases, 15 deaths; Texas again posts record hospitalizations
Tarrant County logs 20 more deaths, and Collin eight. Dallas County tops 170,000 confirmed cases and 1,600 fatalities.
Meanwhile, 11,992 Texans were hospitalized with the virus Wednesday, setting another record.
In Dallas County, the latest victims include eight Dallas residents a man in his 20s, three women in their 50s, a man and woman in their 70s, and a man and woman in their 90s.
Four more victims lived in Mesquite a man in his 50s, a man in his 60s and two women in their 70s. The others include an Irving woman in her 40s, a Garland man in his 60s and a Cedar Hill woman in her 70s.
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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.
Denton nursing home under investigation after nine COVID-19 deaths
Danielle Pestrikoff, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said the investigation began Dec. 9.
An exterior view of the Senior Care at Denton Post Acute Care, also known as the Health and Rehabilitation Center, at 2244 Brinker Rd. in Denton, Texas, Friday, December 18, 2020. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
A Denton senior care facility is under state investigation after nine COVID-19 deaths were reported by Denton County health officials, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission said Friday.
Three deaths at Senior Care at Denton Post Acute Care, also known as Brinker Denton Senior Care Center or Senior Care Health and Rehabilitation Center, were reported Wednesday by Denton County health officials. Six more deaths were reported Thursday. The county did not report any additional deaths Friday.
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.