COVID-19: New cases continue to decline across Texas Monday

The Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District on Monday reported 29 new cases of COVID-19, six of which were confirmed via polymerase chain reaction tests.

Active cases Monday totaled 787 (202 PCR cases and 585 based on antigen tests), down from 879 a week ago.

The number of new COVID-19 cases in Texas continues to decline, with 1,179 reported Monday by state health officials, compared to about 10,600 daily cases at the mid-July peak of a surge that started in mid-April.

The latest surge had a more gradual increase than the previous surge that started in mid-December and peaked a month later at more than 61,000 new daily cases.

The percentage of COVID-19 inpatients in the 16-county Abilene trauma service area was 1.54% Sunday, compared to 1.87% a week ago, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 database.

The Abilene trauma service area Sunday had 13 COVID-19 inpatients, three fewer than reported a week earlier. In the previous 24 hours, there were two COVID-19 admissions in the area, according to the state database.

State officials are releasing county and trauma service area data on Mondays only.

Coronavirus by the numbers

Abilene/Taylor County (Monday data): New cases, 29; PCR cases, 14,454; active PCR cases, 202; total antigen probable cases, 25,883; total active antigen cases, 585; total PCR recoveries, 14,061; total antigen recoveries, 24,866; Total deaths, 654.

Texas (updated Monday): Total cases, 6,344,258; New cases, 1,179; Hospitalized, 1,766; Fatalities, 89,123; New fatalities, 2; Total tests, 71,864,217.

Big Country estimated new daily confirmed cases (Monday, as tracked by the state): Brown, 0; Callahan, 1; Coke, 0; Coleman, 0; Comanche, 0; Eastland, 0; Erath, 2; Fisher, 0; Haskell, 0; Howard, 0; Jones, 1; Kent, 0; Knox, 0; Mitchell, 0; Nolan, 0; Runnels, 0; Scurry, 1; Shackelford, 0; Stephens, 0; Stonewall, 0; and Throckmorton, 0.

Sources: City of Abilene and Texas Department of State Health Services (counts PCR cases only)

SELECT PRISONS (Friday update)

Daniel (Snyder): Staff cases – active, 0; Inmate cases – active, 0, medical isolation, 0.

Havins (Brownwood): Staff cases – active, 0; Inmate cases – active, 0, medical isolation, 0.

Middleton (Abilene): Staff cases – active, 0; Inmate cases – active, 2, medical isolation, 2.

Robertson (Abilene): Staff cases – active, 1; Inmate cases – active, 0, medical isolation, 0.

Sayle (Breckenridge): Staff cases – active, 0; Inmate cases – active, 5, medical isolation, 5.

Wallace (Colorado City): Staff cases – active, 0; Inmate cases – active, 0, medical isolation, 0.

Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice COVID-19 website.

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SCHOOLS

Abilene ISD: Reported Monday zero new cases, for a total of 17 active cases (13 student cases and four staff cases). The total number of active cases is nine fewer than reported Friday.

Wylie ISD: The district is reporting COVID-19 data directly to the health department only.