One Year Of Coronavirus In Lubbock Get our free mobile app One year ago today, the City of Lubbock and it's health professionals announced that the coronavirus pandemic had officially reached Lubbock. Citizens in Lubbock had already seen sports cancelled and even some businesses send people home. Texas Tech had extended Spring Break and there was some hope that maybe it would take longer than it did before the pandemic arrived in Lubbock. We had all seen life beginning to change, but on March 17th the announcement really brought it home. Here is the press release from that announcement. At the time, Lubbock thought there were two cases, one of those cases happened to be a resident of Hockley County.