Houston coronavirus updates: What you need to know about April 11 – Chron.com

By Alison Medley

Updated

5: 37 pm CDT, Saturday, April 11, 2020

Chron.com is compiling the most modern headlines on the COVID-19 pandemic and its outcomes on the Houston home. Think reside updates from HoustonChronicle.com here.

5: 35 p.m.  

There has been a gigantic spike within the choice of COVID-19 circumstances in Houston and Harris County. Primarily based on native wisely being officials,  there are the truth is 3,561 circumstances of COVID-19, an lengthen of 300 circumstances since yesterday.

Galveston County added 14 new clear circumstances of COVID-19, which has brought the total choice of circumstances as much as 355, in accordance with Galveston County Well being District.

4: 10 p.m. 

Heading the RNA therapeutics compare workforce at Houston Methodist, Dr. John Cooke is now participating with Woodlands-essentially essentially essentially based VGXI to invent a COVID-19 vaccine. VGXI is a subsidiary of GeneOne Life science, a South Korean-essentially essentially essentially based DNA vaccine company.

Cooke says the Methodist workforce plans the attain allotment of the new COVID-19 RNA vaccine subsequent week.

“Our first step is to complete the synthesis of the RNA vaccine and take a look at its integrity,” Cooke said. “We are beginning on it subsequent week. Generally, we’re giving the biological machine to human cells to fight COVID-19.  We will start animal checking out in about a weeks. Then we can survey if that vaccine will generate an immune response. There will possible be human trials after that.” Learn extra about this new COVID-19 RNA vaccine on this sage.

3: 50 p.m.

A fifth Sir Bernard Law County resident has died of coronavrius, in accordance with the county’s office of location of beginning security and emergency management.

The COVID19 sufferer, a man in his 80s, used to be a resident at The Conservatory at Alden Bridge, making him the fourth death linked to the senior residing home complex.

Eighty percent of the county’s COVID-19 deaths now stem from The Conservatory at Alden Bridge, which is a complex centered on asserting independence for its aged residents. Learn the fleshy sage about this sage from Houston Myth’s Samantha Ketterer.

3: 00 p.m.

Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta told Fox Info’ guest host Brian Kilmeade Saturday night that he laid off 45,000 employees as a ‘need’ to abet them catch entry to unemployment advantages earlier.

“You are doing other folks a need ought to you catch them furloughed first, because you’ve them to unemployment line after the severance that you just give them. It is a trick that I’ve realized a long time within the past.

Fertitta’s estimated web price in accordance with Forbes stands at $4.8 million, making him the 44th wealthiest person on the planet. Learn extra about his no longer easy resolution on this sage.

2: 08 p.m.

Houston and Harris County COVID-19 checking out ability has doubled, officials launched Saturday afternoon. Harris County sites that usually tested 250 a day will now be equipped to take a look at 500.

1: 40 p.m.

Crews have constructed an outdoors scientific heart for COVID-19 sufferers at NRG Park. The facility has the ability to treat as much as 250 sufferers.  This is in a position to presumably additionally very wisely be feeble when the hospitals trip a surge.  Primarily based on County Clutch, Lina Hidalgo, the charge of the makeshift scientific heart is approximately $11 million. Houston Myth’s Dylan McGuiness presents an replace in regards to the scientific safe haven at NRG.

12: 29 p.m.

People might perchance presumably serene seek knowledge from their stimulus take a look at to realize subsequent week.  If you’ve obtained your 2018/2019 tax returns by ability of command deposit, seek knowledge from to catch the stimulus cash by center of subsequent week. Virtually 115 million People will obtain their stimulus cash by ability of command deposit into their checking story by April 14.

11: 20 a.m.

The metropolis of Houston now has 2,063 confirmed COVID-19 circumstances.  Harris County launched a record of confirmed coronavirus circumstances by municipality on Friday. As Nancy Sarnoff experiences, the county’s most contemporary knowledge reveals 3,261 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19 circumstances and 40 deaths.

9: 26 a.m.

There are the truth is 10 COVID-19 confirmed circumstances at an upscale Houston senior residing home known as the Buckingham, in accordance with a survey on their web situation. Eight residents and two employees have tested clear for COVID-19.  A fleshy quarantine of the constructing has been ordered.

Mayor Turner said he would quickly assert an dispute for all senior residing properties within the Houston home, “We desire everybody’s temperatures to be taken of the employees. We desire all employees to be carrying masks, so that there are clear protocols in location.”

Of the 47 residents tested there, nine have tested clear, 37 have tested damaging, and five assessments are serene pending.

The Buckingham is a senior residing facility located in west Houston with regards to the Piney Point Village.

8: 30 a.m.

Two NASA astronauts who have spent extra than a year and half on the International Space Feature are expected to return to a dramatically modified world subsequent week.

Andrew Morgan said the crew has tried to withhold informed in regards to the pandemic knowledge. Nonetheless it without a doubt’s laborious to possess what’s the truth is going on and what to now stay wide awake for, he noted, when his nine-month mission ends subsequent Friday.

“It is pretty surreal for us to perceive this complete assert unfolding on the planet below,” said Jessica Meir, who took section within the principal all-female spacewalk closing tumble. “We are in a position to portray you that the Earth serene appears to be like honest as stunning as persistently from up here, so it’s no longer easy to ponder the complete adjustments that have taken location since each and every of us were up here.”