Texas had 22,746 new confirmed cases and 5,499 probable cases, for a total of 28,245 new infections since the daily report on Monday.
A confirmed case is a person who has tested positive through a molecular test that looks for the virus’s genetic material, while a probable case is a person who has either tested positive through an antigen test or has a combination of symptoms and a known exposure to someone with COVID-19 without a more likely diagnosis.
The number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals continues to hover just below 14,000, but the hospitalization rate in Trauma Service Area "E" -- which includes Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Hunt Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant and Wise counties -- has climbed to 21.31%.
For the second day in a row, Fannin County suffered one fatality related to COVID-19, raising the county's total to 116 since the onset of the pandemic.