(WBAP/KLIF) – The number of coronavirus cases in the DFW metroplex continues to rise.
Across Dallas, Denton, Collin and Tarrant counties, nearly 1,000 COVID 19 cases are confirmed. At least 15 people have died.
Dallas County reported a total of 549 cases as of Monday afternoon, including its eleventh death. According to the county, the death was that of a man in his 40’s who was found deceased in his Dallas home. This man was reported to have had other high-risk chronic health conditions.
Of Dallas County cases requiring hospitalization to date, about two-thirds (65%) have been either over 60 years of age or have had at least one known high-risk chronic health condition. Hospitalizations from COVID-19 are increasing, with 36% of all hospitalized patients requiring admission to intensive care units.
“We are working collaboratively with industry and working groups to ensure that our essential business employees are as safe as possible,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. “These front line workers are supply chain heroes. We are also asking our community to please be careful on our parks and trails. Social distancing is physical distancing and physical distancing is at least 6 feet. If you are jogging past 500 people going the opposite direction on a trail, you’re breathing droplets on the trail from all of those people, and likewise they are breathing yours. A lack of compliance with physical distancing only increases the chance that more people will get sick and lengthens the time before we get the economy moving again,”
Two people have died from the virus in Denton County which had more than 160 confirmed total cases as of Tuesday afternoon. Collin county is reporting over 130 cases with one death. Tarrant county has at least 139 cases. One person has died there.
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