Harris County coronavirus count: 388 new cases, 3 deaths confirmed June 1

Today, we report 337* new cases of #COVID19, bringing #Houston’s total to 7,743. *This is a two-day total due to the health department now having Sundays off.

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— Houston Health Dept (@HoustonHealth) June 1, 2020

The case count update comes as the total number of new coronavirus cases confirmed over the past week—May 24-30—were less than the previous week, May 17-23. With protests over the death of George Floyd expected to continue this week in Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner has called for social distancing, and use of sanitizer and masks among protesters.

The number of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients in Harris County hospitals increased May 31 to 625, up from 501 on May 29 and 526 from a week prior on May 24, according to data compiled by the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council. Of the 12,664 cases confirmed in Harris County, 7,450 are considered active while another 4,979 are confirmed to have recovered.

The county has now conducted 169,594 tests at both private and public labs, a number that includes both PCR swab tests, which determine active infections from the new coronavirus, and serology tests, which identify antibodies against the virus to determine past infection.