Third Tarrant County case of coronavirus indicates limited local transmission
The personal connections of a third Tarrant County resident who was presumed on Friday to have developed COVID-19 indicates limited local transmission of the coronavirus in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, officials said.
The resident is a contact of a person in Collin County who is also presumed to have the coronavirus. Five people in Collin County had tested “presumptive positive” for COVID-19 as of Friday.
Tarrant County Public Health officials declined to release the local patients’ ages, genders or conditions.
Another Tarrant County resident who received a “presumptive positive” test result that was announced Friday had traveled from Europe, where exposure occurred, and is not related to the county’s first COVID-19 case, the public health department said.
“We are tracing people who may have been exposed during interaction with this person. TCPH’s operations center is monitoring the situation,” Tarrant County Public Health Director Vinny Taneja wrote in a statement.
An Episcopal priest who traveled to a conference in Kentucky was the county’s first case, officials said earlier this week.
Tarrant County Public Health’s North Texas Regional Laboratory identified the cases as part of recently expanded testing. The lab serves Tarrant and 33 other counties in the region.
This story was originally published March 13, 2020 at 6:04 PM.
