Category: COVID-19

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 ...

Comal County reported 72 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, Aug. 17, four of them in residents who live south of Canyon Lake and five who live north of the lake. The county’s positivity rate, ...

Comal County reported 59 new cases of COVID-19 today, and its positivity rate — the percentage of tests with a positive result –also rose to 15.75-percent, up from 15.49-percent on Thursday. Two of the residents ...

Comal County reported one new COVID-19 death, 17 new cases and a slight increase in its positivity rate today. A New Braunfels man in his 70s died at Colonial Manor in New Braunfels on Wednesday, ...

Comal County’s COVID-19 case count rose by 82 today, and the positivity rate — the percentage of tests with a positive result — also increased from 15.05 percent on Tuesday to 15.44. Of the new ...

A Canyon Lake woman in her 80s died in a San Antonio hospital on Aug. 3 of COVID-19. In a statement today, Comal County’s Office of Public Health also confirmed eight other deaths related to ...

A New Braunfels woman in her 50s and a Colonial Manor nursing home resident in his 60s died in New Braunfels hospitals of COVID-19 on Aug. 6. In a statement issued today, Comal County also ...

Comal County added 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, four of them in Canyon Lake, for a total of 2,359. The county ‘s positivity rate is now 15.48%, up from 15.24% on Thursday and ...

A San Antonio judge today granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prevents Living Health Holistic Healing Center in New Braunfels from marketing and selling unapproved COVID-19 test kits. A hearing is scheduled for 9 ...