DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Confirmed coronavirus cases in DFW continue to rise but medical experts say there is some good news with the latest numbers.
Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 109 additional positive cases on Wednesday, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 1,986. The 43rd death from COVID-19 in Dallas County was reported of a woman in her 80’s who was a resident of the city of Garland. She had been hospitalized in an area hospital, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions and did not have additional underlying health conditions.
“You have been sacrificing under the ‘Safer at Home’ order since March 22 and that sacrifice is paying off,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. “This is a critical time for all of us to keep following the Safer At Home orders. If we do that, we will have enough hospital beds and ventilators and we will get this over with sooner rather than later.”
Jenkins said that Dr. Robert Haley, a UTSW epidemiologist, told him this week that had the county waited a week or more to move North Texas to Safer at Home order it might have been the next New York.
Tarrant County has more than 950 confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 30 deaths. Collin and Denton county’s combined reported close to 1,000 total cases as of Wednesday afternoon. At least 97 people across DFW have died from the virus.
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