From the Rockwall County Office of Emergency Management
(ROCKWALL, TX – June 17, 2020) We have received three additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 from Texas DSHS. Two cases are in Rockwall, and one is in Fate. One person is in their 20’s. One person is in their 60’s. One person is in their 70’s.
DSHS has also updated our total number of recovered cases to 188 and sent us the updated travel-related cases chart.
There are 247 confirmed cases, 16 confirmed deaths, 188 reported recoveries, 4435 conducted tests reported. 20 persons reported to Rockwall County hospitals suspected of having COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
We will be sending our Nixle text message update today. If you would like to receive Nixle alerts about emergencies in the county and a weekly COVID update, text “RCOEM” to 888777. If you followed the link in our Nixle to this post we update our COVID information on this page as we get it from DSHS.
State Update
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