Comal Countyâs active COVID-19 case count continued its decline on Tuesday, with health officials adding 19 recoveries from the disease and 14 additional cases.
Of the new cases, 11 are new and three are backlogged being added to the countyâs data. Seven are confirmed and the other seven are probable.
The county now has 189 active cases of COVID-19 with 10 of those patients hospitalized. Thatâs a steep drop from early May when health officials were reporting 350 active cases. Over the first part of the year, Comal County health officials have administered thousands of COVID-19 vaccines to area residents through mass clinics at the New Braunfels Civic Center.
Comal Countyâs COVID death toll climbed by three on Friday as officials announced the deaths of two residents in mid-March and a third death in early April.
All three deaths were recorded in San Antonio hospitals and included a New Braunfels woman in her 50s who died on March 12, a Spring Branch woman in her 60s who died on March 16 and a Garden Ridge man in his 70s who died on April 4.
The county has added four deaths to its COVID data this week, with the death toll since the pandemic arrived last March now standing at 316.
Health officials also added four new cases of COVID to the data, including one confirmed case and three probable cases, as well as 15 additional recoveries.
New Braunfels Utilities and the city of New Braunfels setup its first water station for area residents without water in the wake of outages throughout the city on Thursday. Overnight,