The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Texas rose to 48,693 Monday, up 3,495 since Friday while the Central Texas count increased to 719 with new cases in Bell, Coryell, McLennan, Milam and San Saba counties.

An employee of San Saba Nursing Home & Rehabilitation has San Saba County’s first confirmed case of the virus.

A Regional Health Department Team will test all other employees and residents, the county’s Emergency Management Department said in a Facebook post.

The state Monday reported 1,347 deaths related to the virus, 19,065 active cases, 28,371 recoveries and 1,551 hospitalizations.

More than 723,000 tests have been administered.

The virus is now present in 222 of the state’s 254 counties.

COVID-19 has claimed 14 lives in Central Texas including three in Bell County, two in Coryell County, one in Hill County, one in Limestone County, four in McLennan County, one in Milam County, and two in Navarro County.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reported a total of 248 cases in Bell County Monday, but the Bell County Health District’s count showed 243 at least 150 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 Killeen man in his 50s in ICU died who died on April 8, a Temple man in his 60s in intensive care who died on April 6 who died on April 6, and a Temple woman in her 80s who had been diagnosed with the virus died on March 26.

McLennan County’s total rose by one Sunday to 98.

The latest case involves a resident in the 20-29 age range.

No new cases were reported Monday.

Four cases are active and 90 patients have recovered

Two patients were hospitalized Monday, neither of whom was in critical condition.

Twenty nine residents were being actively monitored.

Four have died including a 66-year-old resident whose death was announced on April 22 and a 61-year old McLennan County man whom a neighbor found dead on April 8.

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.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reports Coryell County had 224 confirmed cases Monday including at least 157 state prison inmates who’ve been diagnosed with the virus.

Thirty five of the cases are active and 30 patients have recovered.

Among the most recent confirmed cases is one involving a Copperas Cove woman in her 50s and a Copperas Cove woman in her 30s, both of whom are self-isolating, and a Copperas Cove woman in her 70s who’s hospitalized.

Several prison units in Gatesville remain locked down because of the virus, which has claimed the lives of a Copperas Cove man in his 70s who died on April 9 at Advent Hospital in Killeen, to which he was admitted on April 2 and a Copperas Cove man in his 60s who was diagnosed with the virus on April 5.

Fifteen cases are confirmed in Limestone County, which has recorded 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 was reporting six cases Monday, Falls County had six cases, Freestone County reported seven cases, Hamilton County reported seven; Hill County reported 22, with one death, Lampasas County had eight cases; Leon County reported nine, Milam County reported 24 with one death; Navarro County reported 38 with two deaths, and Robertson County had six.

No cases have been confirmed in Mills County.

— KWTX 10