The DSHS update showed that in the first three days of 2022, the county recorded over 1,000 new confirmed cases per day.
The SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council showed that 13.6 percent of hospital beds in the county are occupied by patients testing positive for COVID-19, also in a Jan. 4 update. SETRAC reported that 167 patients are in general care while 30 are in intensive care units.
The Montgomery County Hospital District previously reported that coronavirus cases doubled between Dec. 22 and Dec. 29 in its last update of 2021.
In 2021, the county saw its largest spike of new cases in a single day Jan. 26, when 2,137 cases were recorded, according to DSHS data.