Wood County ended August with 407 total cases of COVID-19, with 298 recoveries, 14 deaths and 95 active cases. Some 2,895 residents have been tested.

Information from the Northeast Texas Public Health District also lists 30 probable cases that include 24 active and one death, pending positive PCR test results.

Nursing home numbers, which lag two weeks behind, remained at 17 deaths with 109 residents and 39 employees listed as positive cases.

Mineola ISD reported on Monday that one student and one employee at the elementary school have tested positive. The results were received late Friday and early Saturday.

The employee was last on campus Aug. 25 and the student Aug. 26.

Four additional students were quarantined after being determined to have had close contact.

None of those quarantined displayed any symptoms, to the district’s knowledge.

To date, the case count involving Mineola ISD employees and students include five positive employee cases with four recovered and one active plus four positive student cases, all still active.

Of the cases in the county, 175 have been recorded in the Mineola ZIP code with eight deaths, 68 in Winnsboro with six deaths, 46 in Alba with one death, 56 in Quitman, 27 in Hawkins, 26 in Yantis, four in Golden, two each in Holly Lake Ranch and Emory and one in Big Sandy.

The ratio of women to men is 231-176.

The Texas Dept. of Corrections reports 13 active cases in the state prison at Winnsboro.