STATE REPORTS FIRST COVID-19 DEATH

  

The State of Texas is reporting its first death due to the corona virus.

Officials in Matagorda County says a man in his late 90s reportedly died Sunday with symptoms consistent to COVID-19.

He died Sunday evening at Matagorda Regional Medical Center with symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Later on Monday, hospital officials received confirmation that he tested positive.

Officials say the man was a resident of the county, and they are investigating a possible community link to an earlier positive case in the county. That case was a woman in her 60s.