Dallas County reports 1,589 new coronavirus cases and 16 deaths – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Dallas (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County Health and Welfare Services reported 1,589 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in Dallas County on Tuesday, January 19th.

Of these, 1,351 have been confirmed and 238 are estimated examples.

A total of 208,991 cases have been confirmed (PCR test).

There are a cumulative total of 27,223 possible cases (antigen test).

A total of 1,887 Dallas County residents died of COVID-19 illness after another 16 deaths were reported on Tuesday.

“Updated modeling from UT Southwestern Medical Center By January 29, up to 1,440 COVID patients will be hospitalized in Dallas County, with the potential for 2,700 new COVID cases, “Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a statement. Stated. “In addition, they show that physical distance, wearing masks, and other precautions reduced COVID-19 infection by about 65%.”

DCHHS provides initial vaccination for people at highest risk of exposure to COVID-19.

As of Tuesday morning, 12,122 COVID-19 vaccines were given at the Fair Park Mega Vaccine Clinic, which went live on Monday, January 11.

With an additional week 6 allocation from Texas, about 6,000 doses remain last week.

The first case of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 was identified in a resident of Dallas County who had not had a recent trip outside the United States.

Daily New Daily New Confirmed Possible Cases in Week 1 of the CDC The tentative 7-day average of 7 days is 2,545, which is 96.6 daily new per 100,000 inhabitants. It is the percentage of cases, the highest case rate from the beginning in Dallas County. Of a pandemic.

The proportion of SARS-CoV-2 positive respiratory specimens remains high, with 31.5% of symptomatological patients visiting hospitals in areas tested positive in the first week (the week ending 1/9/21). I will.

Over the past 30 days, 7,310 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in school-age children and staff from 674 separate kindergarten to high school schools in Dallas County. Of these cases, 1,842 were reported in the last week of December.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 41 cases of COVID-19 have been reported between school nurses and nursing assistants, nearly half (19) of whom have been diagnosed in the last two weeks.

The December school outbreak of COVID-19 spread to 11 staff and infected 10 students, after which at least 13 household members of these students and staff were infected with SARS-CoV-2. Added.

This outbreak resulted in one death and one hospitalization.

Currently, there are 111 active long-term care facility outbreaks.

This is the largest number of reported care facilities in Dallas County since the outbreak began.

A total of 3,453 residents and 1,982 health care workers in long-term facilities in Dallas were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Of these, 717 were hospitalized and 386 died. About 22% of all deaths reported so far are related to long-term care facilities.

Thirty-six outbreaks of COVID-19 in housing complexes (homeless shelters, group homes, halfway houses, etc.) have been reported in association with 93 cases in the last 30 days.

Of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization to date, more than two-thirds were under the age of 65.

Diabetes is a fundamentally high-risk health condition reported in about one-third of all inpatients with COVID-19.

Additional deaths reported on Tuesday include:

– A man in his 40s who was a resident of the city of Irving. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 50s who was a resident of the city of Mesquite. She was hospitalized and was in potentially high-risk health.

– A man in his 50s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A man in his 50s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 60s who was a resident of a nursing home in Richardson. She was seriously ill at a local hospital and had no underlying high-risk health status.

– A woman in her 60s who was a resident of the city of Hutchins. She was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in potentially high-risk health.

– A woman in her 60s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She was seriously ill at a local hospital and had no underlying high-risk health status.

– A man in his 60s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. He was hospitalized and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 70s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in potentially high-risk health.

– A man in his 70s who was a resident of the city of Garland. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 70s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in potentially high-risk health.

– A man from the 1980s who was a resident of the city of Grand Prairie. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 80s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She was seriously ill at a local hospital.

– A man in his 80s who was a resident of a care facility in Garland. He was seriously ill at a local hospital and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A man from the 1980s who was a resident of the city of Grand Prairie. He expired in hospice and was in a fundamentally high-risk state of health.

– A woman in her 80s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She was in the hospital.

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