The Hays County Local Health Department recorded six COVID-19-related fatalities, 876 recoveries from the disease, 199 new lab-confirmed cases, 22 hospital discharges and 19 hospitalizations in its first report following the winter storm.
The six county residents who died were a San Marcos man in his 90s; a Buda woman in her 80s; a Kyle woman in her 70s; a Buda woman in her 60s; a Kyle man in his 60s; and a Kyle man in his 40s. The county’s COVID-19 death toll is now at 208.
The county’s data reported Monday included information since Feb. 13. Hays County currently has 714 active cases — 683 fewer than reported in Feb. 12’s report — and there have been 16,036 total cases. The county has tallied 1,480 COVID-19 cases over the past 21 days. There have been 1,771 probable cases spanning from April 2020 through Feb. 22, 2021.
