Denton County Public Health announced this week that 15 more Denton County residents’ deaths were the result of COVID-19, bringing the countywide COVID-19 death toll to 590

Denton, Tx – According to the statement, the deaths reported this week include a Bartonville man in his 70s, a Flower Mound woman in her 70s, two Flower Mound men over 80, a Justin woman over 80, a Lewisville man in his 60s, two Lewisville men in their 70s, a Lewisville woman over 80, a Denton woman in her 40s, a Denton man in his 60s, a Denton man in his 70s, a woman in her 50s from The Colony, a Carrollton woman in her 70s and a Carrollton woman over 80.

Director Dr. Matt Richardson has said multiple times that DCPH only rules a resident’s death as a COVID-19 death if it is determined that the person died as a result of COVID-19, not when someone has COVID-19 but dies primarily of another cause.

The health department reports 2,831 active COVID-19 cases in the county, a number that was declining swiftly a few months ago but is now declining at a much slower rate.