AUSTIN, Texas — The crush of the coronavirus surge in El Paso has the city sending its non-Covid-19 cases to hospitals elsewhere in the state, and officials say it is straining health care capacities statewide.

El Paso confirmed 927 new Covid-19 cases and 22 new deaths Wednesday, and Austin Mayor Steve Adler confirmed that Austin-area hospitals are receiving non-coronavirus patients from overwhelmed hospitals in Borderland.

He added that he was concerned that if Dallas, Houston and San Antonio hospitals also required help, Austin's resources would have little to no capacity to treat its own cases if its Covid-19 numbers reached a similar level.

“We have patients in our hospitals right now that don’t have the virus but needed hospitalizations, and they are here from El Paso because there was no room,” Adler said.

Officials in Harris County, where Houston is located, have warned that the number of Covid-19 cases and related hospitalizations locally is increasing and the trends resemble what the area saw right before June and July when the county saw a large spike in cases that filled up hospitals.