City of Lubbock confirmed 115 Additional COVID-19 Cases, 2 Deaths

As of 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 21, 2021, the City of Lubbock confirmed 115 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), 197 recoveries and 2 additional deaths. The total number of cases in Lubbock County is 45,994: 2,806 active, 42,548 listed as recovered and 640 total deaths.

Since the 4:00 yesterday, three additional cases were reported or transferred to Lubbock. These are reflected in the cumulative totals.

As of 4:00 p.m. there are a combined 38 open hospital beds and 20 patients holding for beds at University Medical Center and Covenant Health System. Note that this reflects staffed beds open to receive patients and differs from the available bed count shown on the DSHS and the City of Lubbock dashboards. These dashboards count all available beds, including specialty beds, such as pediatrics, PICU, outpatient, psychiatric and others, as well as hospitalized patients in the 22 county Trauma Service Area.

Lubbock remains above the 15% threshold where the percentage of COVID-19 confirmed patients in regional hospitals as a percentage of available hospital beds. Today's COVID-19 hospitalization percentage was not available at time of release. Trauma Service Area B will remain under the additional restrictions outlined under Governor Abbott’s Executive Orders until we remain below 15% for seven consecutive days.

Executive Orders 31 and 32 can be found here mylubbock.info/ga-31 or here mylubbock.info/ga-32

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