San Antonio officials reported thirteen4 new cases of COVID-19 and thirteen more deaths Wednesday.
Figures indicate that the virus is spreading more slowly now, and also under pressure on how harmful this can be to the infected.
The thirteen deaths raised the total in Bexar County from the beginning of the pandemic to 754, according to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
Of the recently reported deaths, 4 date back to June and were included in the state’s coronavirus death count, but were recently shown through Metro Health. Mayor Ron Nirenberg said the deaths occurred between June 24 and Tuesday.
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The fitness branch of the Texas State Department recorded 1,007 COVID-19 deaths in Bexar County on Wednesday, 253 more than the total Metro Health. Local officials say the 253 deaths are being investigated to determine that patients lived in Bexar and had been tested for the virus.
The 134 new coronavirus instances reported Wednesday raised the county’s total since the start of the pandemic to 45,622 and more than 90% of the inflammations have recovered, according to Metro Health.
“All the precautions, all the paintings we’ve done to get things done in the right direction have paid off, so let’s keep getting closer as we get closer to the festive weekend and the opening of schools,” Nirenberg said at his pandemic briefing. .
The number of hospitalizations in San Antonio continued to improve. Nirenberg said another 436 people were hospitalized by COVID-19 on Wednesday, 22 less than the day before. Of these, 202 were in intensive care, compared to seven the previous day, and 134 were on respirators, five less than on Tuesday.
“Even though we’ve noticed that those numbers are moving in the right direction, our hospital formula as a total remains under maximum stress,” Nirenberg said.
As the time approaches for schools in the region to open for in-person schooling, at the latest on September 8, Nirenberg suggested that citizens continue wearing masks and practice social estating.
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This week, Metro Health replaced its threat measure for in-person courses from “high” to “moderate” after the city’s coronavirus positivity rate (the percentage of COVID-19 tests that test positive) fell a little less than 10%.
At the height of the pandemic, the rate is around 25%. The goal is to succeed at 5% or less.
City and county parks will remain closed during Labor Day weekend to avoid massive gatherings that can spread the virus.
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A complete list of COVID-19 test sites can be found covid19. sanantonio. gov.
For more information, call 311 or the city’s COVID-19 hotline, 210-207-5779, or email COVID-19@sanantonio. gov.
Silvia Foster-Frau covers immigration news in San Antonio, Bexar County and the South Texas area. For more information about Silvia, abonné. sfosterfrau@express-news. net Twitter: @SilviaElenaFF
Silvia Foster-Frau is the immigration reporter for the San Antonio Express-News and is the main reporter for the Sutherland Springs mass shooting newspaper, which was the fifth deadliest in the country at the time of the November 2017 attack.
He grew up in Galesburg, Illinois, and took a year off in Mexico after high school before attending Grinnell College. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 2015. Silvia did an internship at Minnesota Public Radio, wrote in English and Spanish for Chicago’s bilingual Extra News, and in 2015 won the Two-Year Hearst Journalism Scholarship. He reported in Connecticut for a year and then moved to San Antonio in 2016.
In 2018, he won the Express-News Journalist of the Year award and the Texas AP Michael Brick Storytelling Award in 2019, he won the Texas AP Star Reporter of the Year award in the newspaper category.
Silvia is part Puerto Rican and part of Iowa. She loves tacos for breakfast, says “all of you” and helps keep a reserve of shells on her desk. Hence it can be said that he has completely embraced the San Antonio route.