The County Health Authority, Dr. Desmar Walkes, and the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management were notified by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) of the death of a female in her fifties from the Elgin area in Bastrop County due to COVID-19. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family. This death is the 7th death in Bastrop County from COVID-19. If you have been tracking our Dashboard and case counts you have probably noticed a significant increase in the number of cases this week. Since Monday the confirmed case count has risen 137 cases to a cumulative ...