Two more people, both from Elgin, have died from the COVID-19 illness.
On Thursday, the Bastrop County Health Authority confirmed two new local fatalities due to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The individuals were a 25-year-old man and a woman over 80 years old.
These are the fifth and six deaths from the virus in Bastrop County. Two other victims, a 58-year-old man and a 62-year-old man, were also from Elgin, while the other two were a 56 year-old man from an unincorporated area of the county and a 67-year-old man from Del Valle.
“These deaths are further indication that this virus ...