Category: Coronavirus

Comal County today reported 25 confirmed and nine probable new cases of COVID-19. The seven-day positivity rate is 6.76%. Tuesday’s positivity rate was 5.6%. Location Breakdown New Braunfels – 22 North of Canyon Lake – ...

Comal County said today that a Spring Branch man in his 80s died of COVID-19 at a San Antonio hospital, bringing the total number of virus-related deaths to 115. No date was provided in a ...

Comal County reported 63 new cases of COVID-19 today but said only 27 of those are new. Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) sent a large set of backlog cases, the county said in ...

Comal County reported 12 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, two of them confirmed and 10 probable. The seven-day positivity rate for Friday is 9.50 percent. Five of the new cases are New Braunfels residents, ...

A New Braunfels man in his 70s died from COVID-19 in a San Antonio hospital on Aug. 30, Comal County said in a statement today. The county also reported 12 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. ...

Comal County reported 45 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths today. In a statement, the county said a woman in her 70s from New Braunfels died in a New Braunfels hospital on Aug. 26.  ...

Comal County reported 21 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The seven-day positivity stands at 11.19%. Of the new cases, 20 are confirmed and one is probable. Twenty of the cases were reported in New ...

Comal County announced 24 more COVID-19 deaths today but blamed the sudden increase on underreporting. The county now has 290 active confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases. The seven day positivity rate for Thursday is 16.27%. ...

Comal County reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 today. Thirteen are confirmed and six are probable. Fourteen of the residents who tested positive live in New Braunfels, one lives in the Garden Ridge area, three ...

Mountain Valley Elementary School said in an email to parents today that three members of its “campus community” experienced COVID-19 symptoms while in the building and were isolated before leaving campus. Pieper Ranch Middle School ...

Comal County’s COVID-19 case count rose to 3,005 today after the Office of Public Health reported 36 new cases. In a statement, the county also said it will no longer report the daily positivity rate, ...

Mountain Valley Elementary School parents were notified on Monday that two members of the “campus community” experienced symptoms of COVID-19 while in the building and left school. In an email, Principal Andrea Patrick said Comal ...

Comal County confirmed two new deaths related to COVID-19 today, for a total of 87, and reported 24 new cases of the disease. Public Health also announced a new metric for reporting the positivity rate, ...

Comal Independent School District’s (Comal ISD) Canyon High School (CHS) notified faculty and staff this morning that a member of its “campus community” tested positive for COVID-19. In an email, administrators said no further details ...

Comal County reported 37 new cases of COVID-19 today, four of them in Canyon Lake. The positivity rate is now 14.87%, a slight increase from Thursday’s rate of 14.75%. Of the 37 new cases, 31 ...

Four residents of the Colonial Manner Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in New Braunfels died of COVID-19 between Aug. 5 and Aug. 15, Comal County said in a statement today. The death of two females in ...

Within two days of reopening on Aug. 25, seven Comal ISD school principals emailed parents to warn them their children might have been exposed to COVID-19. The emails do not disclose whether the individuals who ...

Comal County reported only six new cases of COVID-19 today, three of them in individuals under the age of 20. Four of them are confirmed and two are probable. Four of the residents who contracted ...

Comal ISD Board of Trustees President David Drastata apologized tonight for calling COVID-19 the ‘China virus’ in an Aug. 17 email to Canyon Athletic Booster Club parents. The apology was posted to the club’s website ...

Comal County added five new and three probable cases of COVID-19 on Monday, but its positivity rate fell slightly, to 15.59 percent from 15.67 percent on Friday. Of the eight new cases, five are confirmed ...

COVID-19 claimed the lives of two more Comal County seniors earlier this month, the county said in a statement today. Another nine county residents tested positive. Comal County’s positivity rate is now 15.67%, a slight increase ...

Comal County’s COVID-19 death toll rose by five today after the Office of Public Health confirmed reports from area nursing homes. Deaths reported to the county on Aug. 17 include: A man in his 90s ...