COVID cases starting to surge in Texas.

The rise in COVID-19 cases comes as kids are back in class for the school year. Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state health department show an uptick of the virus.

Emergency room visits in Texas for COVID-19 went up by nearly 30 percent at the end of August. The CDC also reported a very high level of the virus in wastewater.

Kids back in class are not the only thing that's causing an uptick. Health experts say there is a new strain of the virus that caused 78 percent of the country's reported cases.

The state health department says nearly 4,000 people tested positive for COVID in the last week.

"Currently, what we're seeing in 34 states, COVID is definitely increasing. Now of course it's a completely differen

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