Hays County now has more people actively sick with COVID-19 than have recovered from the illness.
Over the course of the past two days, the county has had 181 newly-confirmed cases. More than 100 were reported to the Health Department on Thursday, June 11; however staff only had time to enter 82 into the system — the remainder were handed to today’s total of 99.
Meanwhile, a new high number of hospitalizations, 14, was included in today’s report.
So far five Hays County residents, all 60 years old or older have died from the coronavirus and a total of 43 have been hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic. However, Hays County has not said what hospital those patients were in, or whether any were in ICU or required measures like being intubated.
There have been 4,641 people who tested negative and the results are not yet in for 57 people who were tested.
The 29 to 29 year old category continues to have the most cases at 283; 155 among females and 128 among males.
Also, Kyle — which has led the field in the number of cases since the outbreak began – on Friday had 258, 131 active. However San Marcos had 215 active cases out of the 296 total positives.
In a category only recently added to the daily report, 70.5 percent of the total positive cases were in whites, 50.8 percent in Hispanics; 33.1 percent on non-Hispanic, 2.7 percent black and 1 percent Asian.
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