Castro County continues to battle COVID-19 as the numbers rise to 561 cumulative cases.
According to Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera, who also serves as the Emergency Management coordinator, of the 561 cases, there are recoveries, 32 active and 13 deaths. Pending since July are 242 cases, with 220 recovered and 22 active cases, bring the total active number of cases to 54 in the county.
The state of Texas is showing 11,351 confirmed cases in hospitals. There are 63,679 staffed hospital beds in the state, 13,415 available beds and 745 available ICU beds.
The hospitalization rate for Trauma Service Area B (Lubbock region) was at 22.29 percent on Tuesday, putting Lubbock over 15 percent hospitalization for 72 days.
The city of Lubbock confirmed 397 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), 91 recoveries and four additional deaths that day. The total cumulative number of cases in Lubbock County is 41,603, with 3,506 active, 37,555 listed as recovered and 542 total deaths.
As of 4 p.m. on Tuesday, there were a combined 19 open hospital beds and 44 patients holding for beds at University Medical Center and Covenant Health System.
According to Governor Abbott’s Executive Order GA-32, all restaurants, retail stores, office buildings, manufacturing facilities, gyms, exercise facilities and classes, museums, and libraries in all counties in Trauma Service Area B are required to return to maximum 50 percent occupancy levels, except in any county that separately qualifies for the greater occupancy levels because it has minimal cases of COVID-19 under the Department of State Health Services attestation process.
Additionally, all licensed hospitals in the Trauma Service Area are required to discontinue elective surgeries.
The order would remain in place until such time as Trauma Service Area B has seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity is 15 percent or less.
Area counties near Castro County:
*Deaf Smith
Confirmed – 1728
Probable – 519
Active - 202
Recovered – 1,990
Fatalities - 55
*Hale
Confirmed – 4,953
Active – 248
Recovered – 4,600
Deaths - 119
*Hockley
Confirmed -1,648
Active – 177
Recovered – 1,588
Deaths – 75
*Lamb County
Confirmed – 1,287
Probable - 323
Active – 148
Recovered – 1,399
Active -148
*Lubbock
Confirmed – 41,034
Active – 3,442
Recovered 0 37,068
Deaths - 537
*Parmer
Confirmed – 769
Probable - 282
Active – 68
Recovered – 951
Fatalities – 32
*Potter
Confirmed – 14,890
Active – 2,109
Recovered – 12,489
Fatalities – 255
*Randall
Confirmed – 13,507
Active – 2,584
Recoveries – 10,748
Deaths - 161