After a stretch of more than three weeks without any new COVID-19 cases in Dawson County, the situation has suddenly changed.
“I unfortunately have to tell you that we’ve gone from zero to nine new cases over the weekend,” Lamesa Mayor Josh Stevens said in a Facebook Live presentation from City Hall on Monday morning.
That caused the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Dawson County reported since mid-March to jump from 45 to 54.
The new cases, he said, involve:
■1 female over the age of 30,
■2 females over the age of 40,
■1 female over the age of 50,
■2 females over the ...