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 â 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.
âI expect to see more added for the next several days as we receive certificate updates from our period of high hospitalizations,â she said at the time.
The county death toll is now 276.
Bell County has now totaled 19,669 cases, and at least 18,299 people have recovered to date, according to the health district.
Although Bell Countyâs 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 health districtâs director, continued to emphasize how death records are not reported to the county on the same day as the fatalities.
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Recently appointed Belton school board member Erin Bass will seek a full term for her seat.
Bass on Friday filed for a spot on the May 1 ballot, Belton Independent School District spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said. The filing period for the election ends at 5 p.m. Feb. 12.
Bass is seeking her first full three-year term representing Area 2 on the Belton ISD board of trustees.
The Area 4 trustee seat also is slated for the May 1 election. Incumbent Chris Flor, who is nearing the end of his first term, filed for reelection earlier this month.
Bass, a former educator, was appointed to the seat on Jan. 19 to fill the unexpired term of former trustee Dr. Rosie Montgomery, who resigned in December for personal reasons.