Bell County ends COVID-19 disaster declaration
Bell County Judge David Blackburn signed the termination Tuesday, bringing the official declaration of a public health disaster to an end after nearly 15 months. Author: 6 News Digital (6News) Published: 5:31 PM CDT June 1, 2021 Updated: 7:09 PM CDT June 1, 2021
BELL COUNTY, Texas Bell County has terminated its local disaster declaration regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, Bell County Judge David Blackburn announced June 1.
Blackburn signed the termination Tuesday afternoon, bringing the official declaration of a public health disaster to an end after nearly 15 months.
“The only reason the declaration has been in effect the past several months was to ensure that, if there were any federal or state benefits or program funding available to the county, we could make use of them,” Blackburn said in a release. “In talking to several area leaders, I don’t see any need to contin
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Bell County Judge David Blackburn says the situation is bad. The county jail is overflowing with inmates and has been for at least a couple of months.
âOver the next few weeks, we ll probably have seven or eight counties that we re under contract with so we can have places that we can place our inmates in because we simply donât have room here in the county,â said Judge Blackburn.
The county judge says they have 1,070 inmates assigned to the jail, but 80 are already incarcerated in three other counties.
It has been one year since the first COVID-19 case in Bell County was recorded, changing how residents in the Killeen-Temple area live, work and play.
The first presumptive case of the coronavirus in Bell County was reported by the Bell County Public Health District on Friday, March 13, 2020, and was later confirmed by officials.
The individual was a 29-year-old man in Belton with a travel history in Barcelona and Paris from March 4 to March 10, 2020.
The first positive case put in place the first social distancing recommended measures and since then things have drastically changed.
Over 20,900 cases of COVID-19 have been reported by the Bell County Public Health District and there have been over 400 deaths related to the virus in the county.
It has been one year since the first COVID-19 case in Bell County was recorded, changing how residents in the Killeen-Temple area live, work and play.
The first presumptive case of the coronavirus in Bell County was reported by the Bell County Public Health District on March 13, 2020, and was later confirmed by officials.
The individual was a 29-year-old Belton man with a travel history in Barcelona and Paris from March 4 to March 10, 2020.
The first positive case put in place the first recommended social distancing measures, and since then things have drastically changed.
More than 20,900 cases of COVID-19 have been reported by the Bell County Public Health District, and there have been over 400 deaths related to the virus in the county.