There were another 11 COVID-19 related deaths reported throughout the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday along with 768 new cases of the virus, according to health officials from across the region.
In Hidalgo County, seven people reportedly died due to complications related to COVID-19 and 482 more people tested positive, the county said in a news release Tuesday.
The seven people who died ranged in age from their 40s to more than 70 years old, and their deaths raise the county’s death toll to 3,047.
Of the 482 cases in Hidalgo County, 11 were among school staff and 73 were students.
The county now has a total of 106,209 total cases of which 65,422 were confirmed cases, 38,516 were probable, and 2,271 were suspected cases. There are currently 3,504 active cases.
In the county, there are also 443 people hospitalized due to COVID-19. Of those, 419 are adults and 24 are pediatric patients.
A total of 130 of those hospitalized are being treated in intensive care units, of which 125 are adults and five are pediatric patients.
Throughout the Rio Grande Valley, there were 684 COVID hospitalizations as of Monday, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Though the numbers were down from the 722 hospitalizations reported Friday, they still reflected a more than 117% increase since the beginning of the month.
In Cameron County, there were four additional COVID-19 related deaths and 249 new cases Tuesday for a total of 1,754 deaths and 48,445 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Those who died include a Brownsville man in his 60s, two San Benito men in their 80s, and a Santa Rosa man in his 70s.
Starr County reported 17 new confirmed cases and six probable cases, according to county trend data from DSHS.
The same data showed there were 10 new confirmed cases and four probable cases in Willacy County.
