DALLAS (1080 KRLD)- Dallas County Health & Human Services is reporting a record number of 300 cases of COVID-19 this Wednesday.
In addition, three more people have died from the coronavirus. No additional information has been made available.
"Today we had our highest day thus far, we broke 300 for the first time. An important thing to remember about that it's probably akin to a couple of things. We're doing more testing and so when you test more you're going to find more. Memorial Day weekend a lot of folks got together and let their guards down and this is about 11 days or so after that and that's when you begin to see the repercussions of bad decisions. So that's happening too," Jenkins said in an interview to NBC DFW.
"What's probably more concerning is yesterday we saw an increase of about 80 COVID hospitalizations across DFW, 25 just here in Dallas County. That does have our doctors concerned. It's not a trend yet because we look at 7-day averages but the last two days have been ugly and we're watching it closely," Jenkins said. "If the trend continues over what we've seen the last two days if that continues through the week that'd be a pretty significant increase, but two days does not make a trend, so we'll just watch it closely."
The number of new cases has surpassed 200 every day this month. Today's 300 cases sets a new record topping the 298 record cases established last week and Tuesday.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Dallas County is now that of 12,945 cases with a total of 274 deaths.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, an estimated 7,842 people (through Tuesday) in the county have recovered from the virus leaving an estimated 4,829 active cases in the county.