13 new coronavirus cases confirmed in Tarrant County, bringing total to 42

Tarrant County officials confirmed 13 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the total number of cases in the county to 42.

The county health department, which will continue updating the total number of confirmed cases on its website, isn’t releasing information on specific cases such as a person’s age or gender. The department has said it will stop issuing news releases for new confirmed cases.

Of the 42 cases across Tarrant County, there have been 11 in Arlington, 11 in Fort Worth, three in Southlake, three in Mansfield and one or two in other cities across the county, according to the health department. Colleyville, Euless, Lakeside and North Richland Hills each reported two cases. Benbrook, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Keller, Watauga and White Settlement each reported one case.

There are 39 active cases of the coronavirus in the county, with two people who have recovered and one death.

Ten new cases were announced by Tarrant County officials on Friday.

A 77-year-old resident of the Texas Masonic Retirement Center in Arlington was the first person to die of the coronavirus in Tarrant County. Testing of residents at the facility has begun, officials announced.

There were more than 287,000 coronavirus cases around the world as of around noon on Saturday, including more than 19,000 in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. There have been 429 cases across Texas, according to the data, and five deaths.

This story was originally published March 21, 2020 at 12:22 PM.