Officials reported just two deaths caused by COVID-19 related complications Tuesday throughout the Rio Grande Valley as hospitalizations continue to decrease.
Among the deceased is an Hidalgo County resident, an Alamo man over 70 years old, whose death raises the county’s total number of COVID-related deaths to 2,908.
The county also reported that 85 more people tested positive.
Of those new cases, 33 were confirmed cases, 40 were probable and 12 were suspected.
Those cases bring the county’s total to 93,316 cases overall of which 60,872 were confirmed, 30,229 were probable and 2,215 suspected.
Currently, the county reports there are 479 active cases.
The number of people hospitalized in Hidalgo County due to COVID-19 has also continued to decrease, hitting a new low of 47 patients.
Of those patients, 21 are being treated in intensive care units.
Following that trend, COVID-19 hospitalizations also hit a new low across the entire Valley with a total of 87 patients as of Monday, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
That represents a 17% drop from a week prior when there were 105 people hospitalized on June 21.
The last time there were 87 patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 was more than a year ago on June 14, 2020; however, at that time, cases were trending upward.
The second death reported Tuesday was of a Cameron County resident whose death raises the total number of COVID-19 deaths there to 1,687.
There were 43 new confirmed cases in Cameron County which raises the total number of confirmed cases to 42,255. Of those, 2,511 cases are currently active.
There were no new cases reported in Starr County while there were two new confirmed cases in Willacy County, according to DSHS data.
