COVID-19 cases are on the decline as the active case count has decreased by nearly 3,000 over the past week.
Hays County recorded 2,958 active cases as of Monday — 2,854 fewer than reported on Feb. 7. Meanwhile, the Hays County Local Health Department also reported an additional 1,416 recoveries, 448 lab-confirmed cases, 12 hospital discharges and nine hospitalizations on Monday, which included information from Feb. 12-14.
The county considers 2,854 cases active — 1,072 fewer than reported Friday — and there have been 50,732 total cases since the first diagnosis of the virus within its boundaries on March 14, 2020. There have been 6,675 probable cases spanning from April 2020 through Feb. 14, 2022.