Dallas County surpasses 5,000 coronavirus cases after 5th day of record totals
Dallas County eclipsed more than 5,000 total coronavirus cases after reporting over 200 new cases Thursday for the fifth consecutive day, and two more deaths.
The county confirmed 251 COVID-19 cases Thursday, the second-highest single-day total of the pandemic. The two deaths reported were a Dallas man in his 60s and a Grand Prairie man in his 90s.
There have been 5,120 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 125 deaths so far in Dallas County. The county has not reported how many people have recovered.
Of the 125 deaths, more than a third have been residents of long-term care facilities.
The county has reported at least 181 new cases each day in May, including at least 234 cases each of the past five days. There have been 1,221 new cases over the past five days.
“Please keep making good decisions, focusing on not what you can do, but what local health authorities are advising that you should do,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a news release. “Increasingly, it’s up to all of us to take personal responsibility and #FlattenTheCurve and #StayHomeSaveLives.”
About 21 percent of the infected people have been hospitalized over the course of the pandemic, according to the county’s data.
Of the COVID-19 patients who have required hospitalization, 65% have been under 65 years old, according to county health officials, and about half have no underlying health condition.
This story was originally published May 7, 2020 at 2:48 PM.
