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The Bell County Public Health District announced six new COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday, as active cases fell to 399 — 26 fewer than Tuesday. These fatalities, which were identified after death records were received from the state of Texas, increased Bell County’s COVID-19 death toll to 356, Health District Director Amanda Robison-Chadwell said. A woman in her 70s from Temple, two men in their 90s from Temple, a woman aged 99-plus from Temple, a woman in her 40s from Harker Heig...

Although the Bell County Public Health District planned to regularly update its COVID-19 dashboard this week, weather-related issues prevented local health officials from releasing figures Wednesday afternoon.“Due to the weather

Although shelters and warming stations could lead to new COVID-19 cases, Amanda Robison-Chadwell, the Bell County Public Health District’s director, said residents should still seek services if they cannot shelter

County spokesman James Stafford told the Telegram that Pfizer notified Bell County regarding the shipment delay. “Our shipment has not left Kalamazoo, Michigan,” he said. “We got a notification from Pfizer that they are not going to ship doses until they know that it can get here on time” Stafford said shipments from Pfizer are packaged with dry ice, and need to arrive at its destination within 24 hours in order to maintain the vaccines’ ultra-cold storage. “Dry ic...

Six more Bell County residents are reported to have died from COVID-19, as the region’s active cases fell to 1,266 active cases — the fewest concurrent infections since early December.

The Bell County Public Health District announced 11 new COVID-19 related deaths on Monday, as cumulative cases near 20,000. Active cases dropped to 1,370 — 137 fewer than its last update on Friday. On Thursday, Health District Director Amanda Robison-Chadwell said local health officials anticipated that COVID-19 related deaths in Bell County would rise. “I expect to see more added for the next several days as we receive certificate updates from our period of high hospitalizations,â€...

Although Bell County’s active COVID-19 cases fell to 1,761 on Wednesday, local health officials identified nine more related deaths. These latest reported deaths were for two men from Temple in their 70s, a woman from Temple in her 80s, a man from Belton in his 80s, two men from Killeen in their 40s, a man from Killeen in his 50s, a man from Killeen in his 60s and a woman in her 60s from Harker Heights, according to the Bell County Public Health District. But Amanda Robison-Chadwell, the h...

The Bell County Public Health District announced seven COVID-19 related fatalities on Monday with active cases continuing to fall.

The Bell County Public Health District identified eight COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday as active cases fell below 2,000 for the first time since Dec. 29.

Bell County surpassed 15,000 COVID-19 recoveries on Friday, as active cases fell to 2,317 — 43 fewer than Thursday.