Comal County reported enough COVID-19 recoveries to drive its active case count downward on Wednesday and its first May death, with health officials saying a New Braunfels man in his 70s died in a city hospital on May 10. It's the third death the county has reported this week, with the other two dating back to April. There have now been 320 deaths since the pandemic arrived locally in March of 2020. Health officials added 63 recoveries and 45 additional cases on Wednesday, with 23 of the cases backlogged and 22 new, with 21 confirmed and 24 probable. The county's active case count dropped from 351 to 338 with six of those patients hospitalized. That's the first significant active case count drop since April 23 when it dropped from 233 to 219. Since that date it's climbed steadily back over 300 at the start of May.