The Hays County Local Health Department tallied 60 new lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 23 additional recoveries, two hospital discharges and one hospitalization on Thursday.
The county considers 402 cases active — 37 more than Wednesday — and there have been 17,017 total cases since the first recorded coronavirus case within its boundaries on March 14, 2020. Hays County has tallied 584 COVID-19 cases over the past 21 days. There have been 1,871 probable cases spanning from April 2020 through March 25, 2021.
Eight county residents are currently hospitalized by COVID-19 and there have been 783 total hospitalizations with the fluctuation between hospitalizations and hospital discharges reported Thursday. Some patients hospitalized by COVID-19 are in hospitals outside of Hays County but are included in the county’s numbers if they reside within Hays County, the local health department said.
