A report on Wednesday evening by Pecos County Emergency Management Coordinator Jessie Dominguez showed that two Pecos County residents passed away from COVID-19 complications in the past four days.

The individuals, who were both unvaccinated, was a 46-year-old female that passed away on Sept. 1 and a 91-year-old female that passed away on Aug. 29.

The two deaths are in addition to a 31-year-old Pecos County resident who passed away on Aug. 19. The individual was also unvaccinated.

The three fatalities are the only known deaths by Pecos County residents due to COVID-19 complications since the Delta variant spike began on July 28.

Since the recent spike began, DSHS is no longer reporting to specific counties when a resident gets tested, treated, or passes away out of their county of resident.

Dominguez said that Pecos County residents that get tested or treated out of the county no longer get reported to him by DSHS and in turn could cause inaccurate data.

Wednesday’s report also revealed that there are 72 active cases in Pecos County as there were two new cases reported and four recoveries.

The number of probable active cases on the east end of the county that were tested at Iraan General Hospital is at 21, which is 13 less than what was reported last Friday.

As of the afternoon on Sept. 2, there have been 112 people test positive for COVID-19 at Fort Stockton healthcare facilities that are vaccine-eligible but have not received a vaccine. There has been 32 people who have tested positive for COVID that were vaccinated.

That translates to 76 percent of people who have tested positive for COVID in Fort Stockton that are vaccine eligible have not got the vaccine since the Delta variant spike began in the area on July 28.