Dallas County reports increase in COVID cases in children, including 227 since Aug. 6
Dallas County reported 787 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths on Tuesday.
Only 237 of Tuesday’s cases are new. The others are from a backlog of unreported cases from 30 days ago or older. The county reported 1,850 cases on Monday, most of which were unreported cases from June because of the same coding error in Texas’ data reporting system.
Dallas County has confirmed 66,065 COVID-19 cases, including 839 deaths.
County health officials report 227 children between 5 and 18 tested positive for COVID-19 from Aug. 6-14. Since July 1, 3,549 children in the county have contracted the coronavirus, including 66 who have been hospitalized.
The deaths include a Balch Spring man in his 50s, an Irving woman in her 60s, a Dallas woman and man in their 60s, two Dallas men and a woman in their 70s, and two Dallas men and a Grand Prairie man in their 80s. One of the Dallas men in their 80s was a resident of a long-term care facility.
All 10 had underlying health conditions, according to officials.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the recent addition of unreported cases from earlier this summer should not make residents lose faith in the safety measures and social distancing policies.
“It is quite understandable at this point that people would have concerns about computer programs, coding errors, contractors who did not mail things timely and other human errors around testing and reporting,” Jenkins said in a release and on social media. “However the underlying science and the medical recommendations to you and the public are sound, and when employed, are effective around the globe.”
