Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

No new COVID-19 deaths are reported in Allegheny County

- By Marylynne Pitz

Western Pennsylvan­ia counties reported no COVID-19 related deaths since Friday.

There were 34 new cases reported in Western Pennsylvan­ia, led by Allegheny County with 16. All told, Allegheny is reporting 1,989 COVID-19 cases, according to the county health department on Saturday.

Of those 1,989 cases, 1,862 are confirmed and 127 are probable.

The first COVID-19 case in Allegheny County was reported on March 14. Since then, 168 people have died.

Of those 168 deaths, 156 are confirmed cases and 12 are probable.

All deaths are of people who ranged in age from 42 to 103, with 84 being the median age.

The numbers reported by Allegheny County are now in line with what the state is reporting after a change in the way data was collected. This change allowed cases that had not previously been included to be a part of the count.

Here are the total number of

positive cases reported Saturday by the state Department of Health in Pennsylvan­ia: Allegheny: 1,989 (up 16) Armstrong: 65 (up 1) Beaver: 598 (no change) Butler: 244 (up 5) Cambria: 59 (no change) Clarion: 27 (no change) Clearfield: 44 (up 1) Crawford: 30 Erie: 363

Fayette: 95

Forest: 7 (no change) Greene: 27 (no change) Indiana: 91 (no change) Jefferson: 16 (up 1) Lawrence: 84 (up 2) Mercer: 111 (up 1) Somerset: 39 (up 1) Venango: 15 (no change) Washington: 146 (up 5) Westmorela­nd: 457 (up 1) Here are the total number of deaths reported by the State Department of Health for Saturday in Western Pennsylvan­ia:

Allegheny: 168 (no change) Armstrong: 5 (no change) Beaver: 74 (no change) Butler: 12 (no change) Cambria: 2 (no change) Clarion: 2 (no change) Erie: 5 (no change) Fayette: 4 (no change) Indiana: 5 (no change) Lawrence: 8 (no change) Mercer: 6 (no change) Somerset: 1 (no change) Washington: 6 (no change)

Westmorela­nd: 38 (no change) (The Westmorela­nd County Coroner is reporting 32 deaths.)

The age groups, and the percentage of cases they represent in the county are listed below.

0-4: 13 (1%)

5-12: 17 (1%) 13-18: 27 (1%)

19-24: 131 (7%)

25-49: 666 (33%) 50-64: 527 (27%)

65: 608 (31%)

Here are COVID-19 cases by sex:

Female: 1,074 (54%) Male: 915 (46%) Here are COVID-19 cases by race:

White: 21,237 (28%) Black: 9,340 (12%) Asian: 1,115 (1%) Other: 482 (1%) Race unknown: 42,912 (57%)

Here are COVID-19 deaths by race: White: 4,245

Black: 1,216

Asian: 142

Race unknown: 283

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