15 COVID-19 deaths reported this week in Denton County – The Cross Timbers Gazette

Friday, May 28

Denton County Public Health announced this week that 15 more Denton County residents deaths were the result of COVID-19, bringing the countywide COVID-19 death toll to590.

The deaths reported this week include a Bartonville man in his 70s, a Flower Mound woman in her 70s, two Flower Mound men over 80, a Justin woman over 80, a Lewisville man in his 60s, two Lewisville men in their 70s, a Lewisville woman over 80, a Denton woman in her 40s, a Denton man in his 60s, a Denton man in his 70s, a woman in her 50s from The Colony, a Carrollton woman in her 70s and a Carrollton woman over 80.

DCPH Director Dr. Matt Richardson has said multiple times that DCPH only rules a residents death as a COVID-19 death if it is determined that the person died as a result of COVID-19, not when someone has COVID-19 but dies primarily of another cause.

There are now 2,831 active COVID-19 cases in the county, a number that was declining swiftly a few months ago but is now declining at a much slower rate.

To minimize spread of COVID-19, DCPH urges all community members to:

Click here for more information about COVID-19 vaccines in Denton County. For additional COVID-19 data including active case information by municipality, hospital capacity, and ventilator utilization, visitdentoncounty.gov/COVIDstats. For information regarding DCPHs upcoming testing centers, visitdentoncounty.gov/COVID19testing. For additional COVID-19 health and safety recommendations, visitdentoncounty.gov/COVID19.

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