
Texas has reported 8,839 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 420,946 in the state.
The state also reported 295 Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the total number to 6,569.
Texas' health department recently reported that it had "improved" its Covid-19 fatality reporting. Texas Covid-19 fatalities are now counted from death certificates instead of local reports.
Note: These numbers were released by the Texas Department of State Health Services, and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN's database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.