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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – The El Paso Department of Public Health announced seven coronavirus-related deaths and 561 new cases on Monday morning.
This raises the death toll in El Paso County to 1,520.
Hospitalizations decreased significantly from 421 to 392. The number of patients in the ICU also decreased from 165 to 138.
The number of active cases increased from 34,994 to 35,408. There are 66,269 recoveries reported. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 103,787 confirmed cases in El Paso.
There were still 557 deaths listed as under investigation. These are suspected deaths by Covid-19 that have not yet been confirmed, although historically the majority of suspected deaths have ended up being confirmed by health officials.
Complete data from the El Paso health department on Covid-19 can be found online at EPStrong.org.
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