Two more deaths of Bastrop County residents due to COVID-19 reported last week. County health authority Dr. Desmar Walkes and the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) were notified by the Texas Department of State Health Services about the death of a woman in her 50s from the Elgin area, according to information from the OEM released on Wednesday, July 8. This was the seventh death in Bastrop County due to COVID-19. The second death reported last week was a woman in her 50s from the unincorporated area of the 78602 zip code, near Bastrop, according to the weekly report from ...