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Texas set a new record high Saturday with 10,351 cases reported in one day.
Dallas County health officials reported 1,101 coronavirus cases and four new deaths Saturday afternoon. Tarrant County reported 423 cases and six deaths.
"Today we close out the week with 1,101 new cases and four deaths. The average number of daily cases for this week is 1,121 and 54 total deaths reported for the week making this the deadliest week and highest average of new cases to date," Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted.
The residents who died in Dallas County range from a man in his 50s to a woman her 90s.
Texas surpassed 10,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time Friday. The new marker comes at the end of what has been the deadliest week in Texas since the pandemic began.
COVID-19 has killed more than 3,000 Texans, according to the Department of State Health Services.
Some counties are preparing for even more deaths by expanding their capacities to store bodies, per our partners at The Texas Tribune.
Texas' Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, joined in a letter Friday asking the nation's Health and Human Services secretary for a field hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.
Hospitals have become overwhelmed with patients along the Texas-Mexico border and doctors say they're running out of room.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, there are more than 1,800 patients hospitalized.
During an interview Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott said that if recent closures and face mask requirements don't lead to better results in the state's fight in the coronavirus pandemic "additional action will be required."
"If instead, we see the further explosion in the number of people testing positive, especially the hospitalizations and the deaths, additional action will be required," Abbott said. "... If people will adopt that practice [of wearing a mask], there’s no need to lock down the state once again."
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Woman in her 80s is 40th resident to die in Denton County
Denton County health officials say a woman in her 80s is the latest victim to die from COVID-19. Health officials also reported 127 new cases Saturday afternoon.
There have been 1,499 recoveries and 40 deaths since tracking began in March, officials say.
Collin County reports 151 new cases
Collin County health officials reported 151 new cases Saturday afternoon, bringing the total to 4,459. There have been 3,545 recoveries since tracking began in March.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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