COVID-19 hospitalizations reached a new high point June 13 in Harris County at 896 people, up from 829 on June 12 and 662 on the previous Saturday, June 6, according to data being tracked by the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council.

The increases come several days after Harris County officials unveiled a new system to gauge the public threat of COVID-19, warning that trends in hospitalizations and new cases were moving in the wrong direction. At the time, officials said intensive care unit bed capacity was not in immediate danger of being exhausted. About 1,460 of the county's 1,630 ICU beds were occupied as of June 13 with another 300 beds in surge capacity, according to SETRAC.

Harris County and city of Houston officials confirmed another 590 new cases of COVID-19 over the June 13-14 weekend, along with four deaths attributed to the coronavirus. The total cases count stands at 16,778 cases, 9,730 of which are considered active and 6,773 of which are confirmed to have recovered.

A total of 2,145 cases were confirmed over the week of June 7-13, which was similar to the 2,203 cases confirmed between May 31-June 6 and higher than the weekly totals from mid-April through late May. About 2,330 tests have been conducted across public and private labs in Harris County per day over the past week, according to data being compiled by the Texas Department of State Health Services. That average is down from 3,200 tests per day over the previous week in the county. Test totals compiled by the state include both PCR tests and antibody tests.