Tarrant County officials report 3,023 additional novel coronavirus cases, eight deaths
Tarrant County public health authorities on Saturday reported 3,023 additional novel coronavirus cases and eight coronavirus deaths.
The county has reported a total of 190,886 COVID-19 cases that have included 1,833 deaths and an estimated 136,190 recoveries.
The people whose deaths the authorities reported were a woman from Bedford who was older than 90, a man and woman from Arlington who were older than 90, a man from Arlington in his 80s, a man from Fort Worth in his 80s, a man and woman from Arlington in their 70s and a man from Arlington in his 60s.
Five had underlying health conditions, two had unknown underlying conditions and one had no underlying condition.
COVID-19 patients were occupying 30% of the total hospital of beds in Tarrant County as of Friday. About 98% of adult ICU beds, 48% of ventilators and 89% of all hospital beds were in use.
Confirmed COVID patients took up 24.45% of all available beds in the North Central Texas Trauma Region. This is the rate Gov. Greg Abbott is using to determine whether Texas regions can allow businesses to open to larger capacities or permit bars to reopen. The rate would have to drop below 15% for seven consecutive days for business capacity to be increased.
This story was originally published January 16, 2021 at 3:34 PM.
