The Scurry County Health Unit reported nine new positive COVID-19 test results this week — two on Wednesday, three on Thursday and four on Friday. But county officials are being tight-lipped with details.
Although rumors abound, except for one individual, the county has provided only gender and age ranges.
Officials refuse to provide information such as workplaces, where the individuals are being treated or any businesses or public areas they visited.
On Thursday night, however, Scurry County Health Unit director Dana Hartman wrote online that at least one of the individuals had been “everywhere in Scurry County.”
On Friday, Hicks confirmed that.
“What we’re finding out is, those who have tested positive have been going throughout the county and going to different businesses. We are not going to name those businesses,” he said online.
The new results bring Scurry County’s total number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began to 11.
The first two cases, reported April 8 and April 10, reportedly no longer test positive for the disease. The new cases are reportedly one female between the ages of 10 and 20, two females between the ages of 15 and 25, three females between the ages of 35 and 45, one female between the ages of 55 and 65, one male between the ages of 35 and 45 and one male between the ages of 55 and 65.
Hicks said Thursday that one of the individuals who tested positive was an employee at the Scurry County Law Enforcement Center. Hicks said additional testing would be done at the jail.
“Due to the confined space and close quarters necessarily associated with a jail setting, Scurry County will be conducting large scale testing of both employees and inmates over the next 48-96 hours,” Hicks said in a Thursday press release.
“Those tests will be administered by both Cogdell Hospital as well as a State Testing Team and will begin as soon as possible, consistent with all necessary precautions and availability of testing staff and teams. We expect the initial wave of tests to be in the range of 140 individuals, approximately, with further tests to follow.”
Even with nine new cases in three days, Hicks and Snyder Mayor Tony Wofford said they do not plan to expand their disaster declarations or take additional action.
“Scurry County will not add new orders. Governor’s orders supersede any orders we would (put) into place,” Hicks said.
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