Dallas County reported more than 5,300 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, close to 5,200 of which came from a backlog of reports from the state health department Saturday.
The Dallas County Health Department said the majority of the 5,195 backlogged cases being reported Sunday were from tests conducted in July, according to a provisional breakdown.
4,298 were from July, 13 came from March, 149 from April, 80 from May, 52 from June and 603 from August, according to the county.
The state health department put out a statement that some commercial labs submitted backlogs to the department this week, so statewide case counts and some county case counts will include older cases over the next few days.
For example, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says of the county's 5,000 new cases all but 166 of them come from a backlog that, in some cases, dates back to tests run in March.
Tarrant County says half of its 688 are from the backlog and County Judge Glenn Whitley believes the problem is with private, commerciial labs.
Officials on Sunday also confirmed the county's 825th death from the coronavirus, a Dallas man in his 50s who had been critically ill in an area hospital. The man had underlying high-risk health conditions.
Dallas County now has a total of 63,428 cases of the coronavirus and 825 deaths. The county has also reported 2,515 total probable cases and 7 probable deaths related to COVID-19.