Third day in a row of record-breaking daily coronavirus cases in Travis County: 506

For the third day in a row, Austin-Travis County health officials on Sunday reported another record number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease linked to the coronavirus.

Sunday’s tally of 506 new cases is a 21% jump over the last single-day record of 418 new cases, which was set Saturday.

The previous single-day record for new lab-confirmed cases in Travis County was set Friday, with 295 new cases. County officials did not release data on Thursday as they updated the software on their dashboard.

The 10 new hospital admissions on Sunday dropped the seven-day rolling average number of hospitalizations — a key figure that will determine future mitigation strategies and an indicator of hospital capacity — to 25.7, reversing an upward trend that had been continuing for two weeks.

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