Category: COVID-19

Comal County added only 39 new cases of COVID-19 today, the Office of Public Health said in a statement. Twenty-nine of the new cases are confirmed and 10 are probable. The county now has 244 ...

Canyon Lake Water Service Company (CLWSC) said it is working on a plan to “minimize the financial impact” of the recent winter storm on its customers. The company suspended billing and late fees as well ...

Comal County’s Office of Public Health on Friday reported the COVID-19 deaths of eight Comal County residents. Three of the deceased lived in Canyon Lake. The county also reported 49 new cases of the virus. ...

Comal County reported 48 additional cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to 8,959. Thirty-nine are confirmed cases. Nine are probable cases. Forty-four are new cases and four are backlogged cases being added to county ...

Comal County businesses can move from operating at 50-percent capacity to 75-percent capacity after hospitalization rates in Texas’ Trauma Service Area P fell below the 15-percent threshold for seven consecutive days. County Judge Sherman Krause ...

Another nine Comal County residents have died of COVID-19, the county said today. Two of the dead lived in Canyon Lake. The total number of deceased is 278. Due to weather-related closures, Comal County will ...

Comal County said two of the 114 new cases of COVID-19 it reported today are of a United Kingdom (UK) variant called B.1.1.7. The variant spreads more easily and more quickly than others, Comal County ...

Volunteers with Comal County’s COVID-19 call center are reaching out today to schedule vaccine appointments for another 2,000 residents on the county’s standby list, which is currently closed. Comal County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas ...

Comal County today reported another nine residents died of COVID-19 in January and one in February, bringing the total number of deceased to 269. Also confirmed are 44 new cases of COVID-19, for a total ...

Two thousand Comal County residents will receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today at New Braunfels Civic/Convention Center. Helping out at today’s vaccination clinic are 168 nursing students and 135 volunteers. Comal County’s ...

Comal County on Tuesday reported 88 new COVID-19 cases and 41 recoveries from the virus. Ninety-five of the 667 residents with active, confirmed-and-probable cases of COVID-19 are hospitalized. Thirty-two of the new cases are confirmed, ...

CVS Health said today it will offer 250,00 total doses of COVID-19 vaccinations to eligible populations at pharmacy locations in 11 states beginning Feb. 11. Seventy stores in Texas will receive 38,000 vaccinations, the company ...

Former Comal County Health Authority Dr. Dorothy Overman told readers of her New Braunfels COVID19 Community Info Facebook page there’s both good and bad news about COVID-19. Posting on Jan. 31 she saId most experts ...

Comal County today reported 57 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths from the virus. Two of the dead lived in Canyon Lake. In a statement, the county said 11 of the new cases are confirmed ...

Comal County said on Facebook today it expects to receive 4,000 COVID-19 vaccines next week and urged the 12,000 residents who signed up for the ‘standby list’ earlier this week to check their phones, text ...

Comal County closed its COVID-19 vaccine standby list today after 12,000 anxious residents signed up in less than 24 hours. The county made the announcement on Facebook. Those who managed to register will be contacted ...

Comal County today reported 117 new COVID-19 cases and 117 recoveries from the virus. In a statement, the county said 13 are confirmed cases and 104 are probable cases. One is a suspect case. The ...

Comal County today reported 114 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths from the virus. In a statement, the county said 38 are confirmed cases and 75 are probable cases. One is a suspect case. Dead ...

Comal County added a link on its website to a new “standby list” for residents who qualify for COVID-19 vaccines under Phase 1A and Phrase 1B of the Texas’ vaccination plan criteria. Signing up does ...

Comal County today confirmed 89 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths from the virus. In a statement, the county said 32 are new cases and 57 are backlogged just added to county data. Nine of ...

Comal County today confirmed another 80 new COVID-19 cases and 19 more deaths from the disease. In a statement, the county said 22 of the new cases are confirmed cases and 60 are probable cases. ...

Comal County today confirmed another 100 COVID-19 cases and reported five more deaths from the virus. In a statement, the county said 40 of the new cases are probable and 60 are confirmed, Dead are: ...

Comal County reported 82 new and 833 active cases of COVID-19 today Sixty-six of the new cases are probable and 16 are confirmed. The 833 active cases are both confirmed and probable. Of those, 59 ...

Phones are ringing off the hook at Comal County’s Office of Public Health. People want to know where and when they can get COVID-19 vaccines. The answer, according to Public Health Director Cheryl Fraser, is ...

Six more New Braunfels residents have died from COVID-19. Comal County reported the deaths in a statement today. Another 86 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed. Fifty-nine of them are probable, 26 are confirmed and one ...

Comal County’s Public Health Department reported 73 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths today. County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said 44 are new cases and 29 are backlogged cases just added to county ...

Ten more Comal County residents died of COVID-19 between Dec. 18, 2020 and Jan. 4, the county said in a statement issued today. Two of them are Canyon Lake residents in their 60s. County Public ...

Five more Comal County residents died of COVID-19 between Dec. 31 and Jan. 3, the county said in a statement today. Also reported were 170 new cases of the virus. Twelve are confirmed and 158 ...

Comal County is out of COVID-19 vaccinations, county Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said in a press release today. The county used its full allotment of Moderna’s COVID-19 during a week of scheduled vaccinations. There ...

Comal County confirmed five more COVID-19 deaths and 127 new cases of the virus in a statement issued today. The deceased are: A New Braunfels woman in her 50s who died on Dec. 13 A ...

Comal County reported 71 new cases of COVID-19 today, 11 confirmed and 60 probable. There are now 681 active, confirmed-and-probable cases of COVID-19 in the county. Of those, 53 are hospitalized, county Public Information Officer ...

The Community Resource & Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) abruptly and without explanation shuttered its popular Rec Center on the Dam Access Road today, sparking heated criticism on Facebook and a fiery email from ...

Brookshire Brothers pharamcies across rural Texas received allotments of the COVID-19 vaccine this week. The Lufkin, Texas-based grocery chain is following the state’s priority grouping system by vaccinating health care worker populations and residents of ...

A Canyon Lake man died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Dec. 29, Comal County said today in a statement. No further details are available. Yesterday, the county also reported the death of a Canyon Lake woman ...

The holiday season isn’t very merry in Comal County. In its first update since Dec. 24, the county today reported 113 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths from the virus. Hospitalizations rose and the ...

The first health care professionals in Comal County received their COVID-19 shots today. “This is an exciting day for Comal County Public Health,” said county Health Director Cheryl Fraser. “Our frontline health care professionals are ...

Comal County bars were ordered to close and businesses to reduce occupancy rates from 75 percent to 50 percent after hospitalization rates in Texas’ Trauma Service Area (TSA) P exceeded 15-percent or more of total ...

Comal County reported 79 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing its total count to 6,009 since reporting began in March. There are now 796 active cases in the county, according to county Public Information Officer ...

Dr. Dorothy Overman, the New Braunfels physician who served as Comal County’s Health Authority for 25 years before stepping down in November, says she always asks her patients where they caught COVID-19. “Almost everyone knows, ...

Bars and other area businesses could be forced to close or reduce their occupancy rates if the hospitalization rate in Texas’ Trauma Service Area (TSA) P, which includes Comal County, stays above 15 percent for ...

Comal County says 46 of its residents are now hospitalized with COVID-19. There are 785 active, confirmed-and-probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, Comal County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said in an email. The ...

Five New Braunfels residents have died of COVID-19 since Dec. 18, Comal County confirmed in a statement today. A man in his 50s and a man in his 80s both passed away on Dec. 18. ...