(WBAP/KLIF) — The Metroplex is approaching a hundred thousand positive tests for Coronavirus. Almost 1,900 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in North Texas, Tuesday. Tarrant county listed 805 additional positives, Dallas county 641, Collin county 318 new cases and Denton county had 95 newly infected residents.
Overall, Dallas county reports more than 52,000 cases of Coronavirus, Tarrant county over 30,000, Denton county in excess of 7,100, and collin county has more than 6,700 county-wide cases.
Texas reported almost 9,200 new cases of COVID-19, Tuesday, for over 451,000 total infections. The statewide death toll is nearing 7,300. Dallas county reported 31 new Coronavirus related deaths, Tuesday, while Colin county listed one.
In all, Dallas county has had 722 fatalities, Tarrant county 396, Collin 84, and 56 Denton county residents have died.
North Texas is approaching 13-hundred covid-19 deaths with a 1.3% mortality rate.
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Dallas county 52,131 cases (641 new), 722 deaths (31 new), 1.4% mortality rate
Tarrant county 30,162 cases (805 new), 396 deaths, 1.3% mortality rate
Denton county 7,127 cases (95 new), 56 deaths, 0.8% mortality rate
Collin county 6,738 cases (318 new), 84 deaths (1 new), 1.3% mortality rate
Metroplex 96,158 cases (1,859 new), 1,258 deaths (32 new), 1.3% mortality rate
Texas 451,181 cases (9,167 new), 7,261 deaths (245 new), 1.6% mortality rate
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