Tarrant County Public Health reported 3,361 additional cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with 18 additional deaths. The case number represented a one-day high for the county, good only for the data processed Thursday.
Information for Jan. 1-2 will be reported Sunday, a health department spokesperson confirmed.
Dallas County also reported a one-day high on Saturday.
Data from the county’s health department indicates that of the additional cases reported Saturday, 2,865 cases are confirmed, while the other 496 are likely.
The province did not report any cases on Friday due to the New Year holiday.
The 18 additional deaths reported Saturday bring the total number of deaths from the coronavirus in Tarrant County to 1,512.
Among the dead was a Fort Worth woman in her nineties; four men in their 80s from North Richland Hills, Arlington, Mansfield and Grand Prairie; five men and two women in their seventies from North Richland Hills, Mansfield, Sanson Park, Fort Worth, Arlington, Haltom City, and Azle; a man and woman from Arlington in their sixties; a man and woman from Arlington in their fifties; a Fort Worth man in his forties; and a man from Fort Worth in his thirties.
According to the health department, they all had underlying health problems.
The province began reporting both probable and confirmed cases in August at the request of the state health service. Likely cases, the county said, are responsible for a variety of real-world situations and can reveal cases in the community that would otherwise go unreported. To date, the province has reported 134,011 confirmed cases of the virus and 19,354 probable cases for a total of 153,365 cases.
The province also reports an additional 1,366 estimated recoveries, bringing the total survivors to 110,335.
Of the cases in the province, 71% of those who died were over the age of 65. Those aged 25 to 44 make up the largest percentage of people with COVID-19 at 36%.
According to the Tarrant County Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, as of Friday, adult ICUs had 99% capacity and the overall bed occupancy rate for all hospital beds in the county was 87%.
The health department reported that as of Thursday, 1,399 COVID-19 patients are currently occupying hospital beds in the county. A month ago, on Dec. 1, 884 COVID-19 patients occupied Tarrant County hospital beds.