EDINBURG – Over a three-day period, 30 more people in Hidalgo County died from COVID-19 related complications and 166 more people tested positive, Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said Monday.
For the first time since the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department began an active COVID-19 emergency operations center, the group has returned to a five-day a week operation. It operated seven days a week for several months, then moved to a six-day a week operation. Because it is now operating on a Monday-Friday schedule, Monday’s numbers reflect three days of activity.
“Given that these numbers are for three days,