Brazoria County reported 65 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths May 16-18. The county also reported 12 recoveries.

This new data brings the Brazoria County case total to 786. This includes 381 confirmed cases, six probable cases, 388 recoveries and 11 deaths.

Of the new coronavirus cases in the county, 36 are residents at the Windsong Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility in Pearland, Tuscany Village Nursing Home Facility in Pearland, or Creekside Village Nursing Home Facility in Clute.

Six of the new cases and one of the deaths reported over the weekend were Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates. The other COVID-19 related death was a Freeport resident in his 80s.