San Marcos' COVID-19 active case count jumps by nearly 100

San Marcos saw a nearly 100 active COVID-19 case count increase Wednesday after the Hays County Local Health Department found that case information was incorrect. 

Hays County Epidemiologist Eric Schneider said data showed that San Marcos had 29 active cases in the past 21 days but the local health department received approximately 117 new COVID-19 cases in October. 

“At that point, we knew not all of those had been cleared yet, so we continued digging into the data,” said Schneider, adding that the change has caused San Marcos’ active case count to rise and Kyle’s to decrease.