CUERO, Texas – DeWitt County announced 70 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 60 additional recoveries since its last report. A majority of these new cases were tested at the government-sponsored testing center in Yorktown earlier in July, the county said in an email statement. “Officials also report five additional deaths which brings the death toll to nineteen,” the county said in the statement. A total of 591 cases have been diagnosed in DeWitt County since Gov. “202 individuals, including the 70 newly confirmed cases, are isolating at home,” the county said in a statement.

CUERO, Texas – On Aug. 12, DeWitt County officials confirmed 11 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases in the county to 699 since March 13, officials said. Of the new cases, eight of the residents live in the Cuero ZIP code, one in the Yoakum ZIP code and two in the Yorktown ZIP code. Officials report one additional death, bringing the death toll in the county to 31. There are 102 active cases, with 96 residents quarantined at home and six at a medical facility. A total of 566 residents have recovered from the disease.