The number of deaths related to the coronavirus outbreak in Central Texas rose to 11 Wednesday, and the total number of confirmed cases increased to more than 300.
McLennan County reported a fourth death Wednesday, a 66-year-old man with underlying conditions, and Coryell County reported its first death from the virus on Wednesday, a man in his 70s who died on April 9 at Advent Hospital in Killeen, to which he was admitted on April 2.
Eleven people diagnosed with the virus have now died in Central Texas including three in Bell County, three others in McLennan County, two in Navarro County and one in Limestone County.
Texas was reporting a total of 15,492 confirmed cases with 364 deaths Wednesday morning.
About 3,150 patients have recovered.
The virus has been confirmed in 184 of the state’s 254 counties.
A total of 302 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Central Texas.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reported a total of 110 cases in Bell County Wednesday morning, but the Bell County Health District’s count showed 100, 49 of whom have recovered.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases that Bell County reports at the local level does not include people who live on post at Fort Hood. The number of confirmed cases in Bell County that the Texas Department of State Health Services reports does include Fort Hood cases. Cases involving Fort Hood personnel who live off post are included in the numbers the county releases.
The virus has claimed three lives in Bell County including a man diagnosed with the virus who died on April 8, a man who died on April 6, and a Temple woman in her 80s who had been diagnosed with the virus died on March 26.
In McLennan County, 74 cases have been confirmed and 40 patients have recovered.
The latest cases involve a resident whose age ranges from 50 to 59 and a resident whose age ranges from 60 or older.
Four patients were hospitalized, three of them in critical condition.
Forty eight patients have recovered.
Health officials are monitoring 90 residents who have either tested positive or have been in close contact with someone who has the virus.
Three have now died including a 61-year old McLennan County man whom a neighbor found dead on April 8.
McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley ordered an autopsy because the man, whom she identified Monday as Taro Johnson, exhibited symptoms of the virus before he died.
G.W. Carver Middle School Principal Phillip Perry, died of complications from the virus on March 31 and a 69-year-old man died on April 9 at a local hospital.
A Waco police officer and a Department of Public Safety trooper are among those who tested positive for the virus in McLennan County, officials said Wednesday.
Both have since recovered.
Coryell County was reporting 43 confirmed cases locally Wednesday, but the state virus tracking website showed a total of 60 cases in the county.
Limestone County is reporting 11 confirmed cases and one death.
A Mexia woman in her late 50s to early 60s with underlying health conditions died on March 31 at Parkview Regional Hospital in Mexia after she was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Bosque County reported 1 case Wednesday, its first; Falls County reported one case; Freestone County reported one case, its first; Hamilton County reported three cases; Hill County reported eight cases; Lampasas County reported three cases; Leon County reported four cases; Milam County reported eight cases; Navarro County reported 16 cases and Robertson County reported two.
— KWTX 10