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After receiving its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday morning, Garland has started vaccinating front-line health care workers. Garland’s...

Dallas County adds 30 COVID-19 deaths, 2,366 new cases; the county’s death toll is now over 1,500 The state announced nearly 20,000 coronavirus cases Tuesday. Meanwhile, Tarrant County recorded 16 more fatalities, and Collin County logged eight. revised to include Collin County data. Dallas County on Tuesday reported 2,366 more coronavirus cases, all of them considered new. Thirty new COVID-19 deaths also were reported. Seven of the victims were Dallas residents: two men in their 60s, two wom...

Dallas County reports 23 deaths, 1,814 coronavirus cases; Tarrant adds 265 previously unreported deaths The older deaths occurred in Tarrant County from April to November and had not been previously reported. This image shows the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, pink, cultured in the lab.(U.S. National Institutes of Health / AP) Dallas County on Monday reported 1,814 more coronavirus cases and 23 deaths Monday. Eleven of the victims were Dallas resident...

Why did these Irving grandparents join a COVID-19 vaccine trial? At ages 71 and 82, Salma and Mohamed Mushir saw a chance to help and did not hesitate. Salma Mushir has not knelt and prayed at her mosque for months. The Irving resident has not seen some family members since March and has not gathered with friends for just as long. So when her physician asked whether she wanted to join the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine trial, she did not hesitate. “The world is in in trouble,” Mushir s...

Dallas County reports 30 COVID-19 deaths, 1,143 new cases; Tarrant logs 960 cases, 13 deaths Statewide, 7,616 more cases and 122 COVID-19 deaths were announced. An electron microscope image of the novel coronavirus.(HANDOUT / National Institutes of Health/AF) Dallas County reported 1,143 more coronavirus cases and 30 COVID-19 deaths Sunday. Among the newly reported fatalities were 17 Dallas residents. Nine of them were women — one in her 30s, one in her 50s, two in their 60s, one in her 70s,...

Dallas County reported 1,723 more coronavirus cases and eight new COVID-19 deaths Saturday. The latest fatalities were a Dallas man in his 50s who died at home, a Garland man in his 50s who died at home, a Dallas man in his 70s who had been hospitalized, a Grand Prairie man in his 70s who had been critically ill at a hospital, an Irving man in his 70s who died in hospice care, a Dallas woman in her 80s who died in hospice care, and a Cedar Hill man in his 90s who had been hospitalized. All had ...

U.S. clears Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, adding 2nd shot to nation’s arsenal Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine. By Wire Services WASHINGTON — The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day. Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Adminis...

Dallas County reports 2,248 new coronavirus cases, 10 deaths as hospitalizations reach record high In Tarrant County, officials reported 2,016 new cases and 16 deaths, as well as a new high for hospitalized patients. Revised to include statewide data. Dallas County on Friday reported 2,248 more coronavirus cases, as well as a record number of hospitalizations for the virus. Ten new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. The latest victims were two Dallas men, in their 50s and 80s; two Grand Prair...

Dallas County reports record 2,438 coronavirus cases while Collin County reports high of 7 deaths North Texas’ fatalities announced Wednesday include 12 in Dallas County and 13 in Tarrant County. Dallas County on Wednesday reported a record 2,438 coronavirus cases, as well as 12 more COVID-19 deaths. The county reported 5,361 cases Aug. 16 and 3,303 cases Nov. 29. But the August count was inflated by a dump of backlogged cases from the state’s reporting system, and November’s was a three-...

Texas reports 16,864 confirmed coronavirus cases as Dallas County logs 1,382 cases, 10 deaths As North Texas approaches the holidays, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins asked residents to take the proper precautions to protect themselves. Dallas County on Thursday reported 1,382 more coronavirus cases, all of them considered new. Ten new COVID-19 deaths were also reported.(wildpixel / Getty Images/iStockphoto) Revised to include statewide data. Dallas County on Thursday reported 1,382 more corona...