Brazoria County new single-day COVID-19 cases down 34% from mid-January

Brazoria County continues to trend downward in new single-day COVID-19 cases and active cases as of early February.

Brazoria County averaged 413.2 new single-day COVID-19 cases between Jan. 20 and Feb. 3, according to Brazoria County Health Department’s dashboard data. The county was averaging 629.93 new COVID-19 cases each day between Jan. 5 to Jan. 19, which means new single-day cases have dropped by 34.41%.

The county reported 359 cases Feb. 3 with six of them over two weeks old, according to Brazoria County’s Twitter account. Brazoria County reported two new COVID-19-related deaths Feb. 3.

The number of active cases in the county has also continued to fall as it did in mid-January. On Jan. 19, there were 6,147 active cases in Brazoria County, and as of Feb. 3 that number dropped to 5,412 active cases.

The county has also reported 6,560 new recoveries and 29 new deaths between Jan. 20 to Feb. 3, according to dashboard data. In total since the county began tracking, there have been 84,448 COVID-19 cases reported, which is an increase of 6,198 since Jan. 19, according to dashboard data.

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, 61.19% of Brazoria County’s population age 5 and older is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, which is an increase of 0.63%—or about 2,343 people—from Jan. 19, based on Brazoria County’s population from 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data.