Over the weekend, the number of new cases of the coronavirus in Fort Bend County rose each day, according to data released by the county April 20.
Data released April 17 showed Fort Bend County had 695 cases of the virus. Three days later, Fort Bend County is reporting 799 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
The county also recently began releasing information on coronavirus patients’ race and ethnicity. Of the cases in Fort Bend County where race and ethnicity data was collected, 34% of people with the coronavirus are black (non-Hispanic), 23% are Hispanic, 20% are Asian (non-Hispanic) and 19% are white (non-Hispanic). Three percent of cases are classified as other. These percentages provided by Fort Bend County do not equal 100% because of rounding.
According to 2018 U.S. Census Bureau data, Fort Bend County as a whole is 32.3% white (non-Hispanic), 24.7% Hispanic, 20.6% Asian (non-Hispanic), and 20.4% black (non-Hispanic). These percentages do not equal 100% because they do not include the percentage of people who identify as two or more races or as races and ethnicities outside of the four above.Missouri City continues to have the most cases of any jurisdiction in the county, with 129. Sugar Land follows, with 94 cases. Still, the majority of cases—436 of 799—are in unincorporated Fort Bend County.
