FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – Tarrant County announced it’s fourth positive case of Covid 19, with testing at a private lab. Officials say the fourth case is a resident of Tarrant County, and is a close contact to the American AIrlines pilot who tested positive earlier last week. That pilot was determined to be an out of state resident.
Tarrant County Public Health Director Vinny Taneja said “The fourth COVID-19 case was isolated at home and then developed symptoms. No one at DFW Airport came in contact with the fourth patient since symptoms developed.” Tarrant County Public Health’s lab serves a 33 county region for COVID-19 testing.
COVID-19 causes respiratory illness with cough, fever, and shortness of breath, and may lead to bronchitis and severe pneumonia. Though more than 5,000 people worldwide have died as a result of the virus, nearly 70,000 have recovered, but the elderly and those with compromised immune systems as well as the very young are believed to be most at risk of death. The death rate is significantly higher for these groups, but percentages estimated vary from different sources.
Officials remind citizens the next two weeks will be crucial to everyone’s efforts to avoid spreading the virus.
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