The Hays County Local Health Department reported 147 new confirmed COVID-19 cases from March 10-16. Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Community Levels tool, Hays County is deemed a low-risk county with less than 200 new cases per 100,000 people in seven days.
There have been two fatalities and seven hospital admissions in the past seven days.
The current seven-day positivity rate is 2.46%.
As the number of cases continue to steadily decline, the vaccination rates have slowly increased compared to data from late February, as previously reported by Community Impact Newspaper.
