Dallas woman in 20s with no health issues among COVID deaths and is ‘somber reminder’
Dallas County reported more than 500 new coronavirus cases for the fifth consecutive day and seven more deaths on Wednesday.
The county reported 544 new cases, a day after a pandemic-high 601 on Tuesday. The county has reported 300 or more cases each day since June 10.
Dallas County has confirmed 21,882 COVID-19 cases, including 380 deaths.
The latest deaths include a Dallas woman in her 20s who did not have underlying health conditions. She had been critically ill in an area hospital. A Dallas man in his 50s who had been hospitalized also did not have underlying conditions.
Others included Dallas women in their 40s, 60s and 80s. The woman in her 60s was found dead at home.
A DeSoto man in his 60s and a Seagoville man in his 70s also died after being critically ill in area hospitals.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins called the deaths of the two Dallas residents with no underlying health conditions “a somber reminder of the dangerous nature of COVID-19 on everyone.”
Jenkins urged residents to adhere to social distancing and face covering guidelines with the Fourth of July scheduled for Saturday.
“We cannot afford another deviation from making good decisions like we saw during Easter/Passover and Memorial Day given the surge in cases we are now seeing,” Jenkins said in a release an on social media. “It was nearly two months from the time I declared a state of emergency and instituted ‘Safer at Home,’ until the daily case numbers began to go down.”
Jenkins warned that if there is a repeat of the surge in cases two weeks after Memorial Day that “hospitals are at risk of being overrun later,” and that “many more people will get sick and die, and our economy will be set back for months.”
“Please celebrate the 4th of July with your families and only be around people that you are in close contact with daily,” he said. “When you are around people other than your family, please wear a mask and keep six foot distance at all times. It’s going to be up to all of us to have a safer 4th of July weekend than we achieved together as a community for Easter/Passover and Memorial Day. Lives depend on it.”
Estimated active cases over time
Coronavirus daily active case estimates by local counties in the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex, beginning April 8, 2020. Data provided by Texas Health and Human Services.
This story was originally published July 1, 2020 at 5:27 PM.
