Pa. reports 2,251 new cases, 37 more deaths over past 2 days
The number of reported COVID19 cases continues to rise in Allegheny County and statewide.
Pennsylvania health officials on Sunday reported 2,251 new cases of COVID- 19 and 37 more deaths since Friday.
The state’s totals now stand at 163,535 cases of the virus and 8,216 virus- related deaths.
Western Pennsylvania accounted for 486 of the new cases, with Allegheny County having the highest two- day total of 204 new diagnoses. Westmoreland County had 63 more cases.
Of the 37 new deaths statewide, Beaver County and Mercer County had one each. No new deaths were reported in Allegheny. To date, a total of 386 people have died in Allegheny as a result of the virus.
The latest cases bring Allegheny County’s case total to 12,731 since the beginning of the pandemic in mid- March. There have been 1,227 hospitalizations.
Those recently diagnosed in the county range in age from a 1month- old to 95, with a median age of 35. The new cases were from tests taken between Sept. 12 and Oct. 3. Only one test is from Sept. 12. The remaining tests are from the last week. Of the 204 new cases, 180 are confirmed cases from PCR tests. A total of 24 cases are probable. Of the probable cases, 13 are from positive antigen tests.
Here is the total number of positive cases reported
Saturday and Sunday in Western Pennsylvania:
• Allegheny: 12,731 ( up 204 from Friday)
• Armstrong: 463 ( up 7)
• Beaver: 1,971 ( up 18)
• Butler: 1,128 ( up 27)
• Cambria: 652 ( up 13)
• Clarion: 137 ( up 7)
• Clearfield: 342 ( up 3)
• Crawford: 324 ( up 3)
• Erie: 1,643 ( up 40)
• Fayette: 828 ( up 6)
• Forest: 15 ( no change)
• Greene: 194 ( up 3)
• Indiana: 780 ( up 26)
• Jefferson: 118 ( up 1)
• Lawrence: 559 ( up 11)
• Mercer: 771 ( up 14)
• Somerset: 238 ( up 7)
• Venango: 97 (up 2)
• Washington :1,434( up 31)
• West more land :2,416( up 63)
Nursing and personal care homes The state has released data—organized by county—about cases and death sat nursing and per-sonal care homes. Here’ s information about Western Pennsylvania, based on Sunday’ s figures. Changes in deaths are noted in parentheses :
• Allegheny :101 facili-ties ,1,561 cases among resi-dents ,530 cases among em-ployees ,292 deaths (4 more deaths )
• Armstrong :7 facilities ,129 cases among residents ,23 cases among employees ,18 deaths( no change )
• Beaver :8 facilities ,685 cases among residents ,142 cases among employees ,132 deaths (1 more death )
• Butler :15 facilities ,52 cases among residents ,31 cases among employees ,5 deaths( no change )
• Cambria: 7 facilities ,51 cases among residents ,27 cases among employees ,0 deaths( no change )
• Clarion :3 facilities ,18 cases among residents ,15 cases among employees ,1 death( no change )
• Clear field :6 facilities ,54 cases among residents ,28 cases among employees ,10 deaths( no change )
• Crawford :4 facilities ,14 cases among residents ,32 cases among employees ,0 deaths( no change )
• Erie :22 facilities ,179 cases among residents ,125 cases among employees ,41 deaths( no change )
• Fayette :7 facilities ,22 cases among residents ,19 cases among employees ,1 death( no change )
• Greene :2 facilities ,2 cases among residents ,2 cases among employees ,0 deaths( no change )
• Indiana :12 facilities ,69 cases among residents ,19 cases among employees ,4 deaths( no change )
• Jefferson :5 facilities ,10 cases among residents ,7 cases among employees ,0 deaths( no change )
• Lawrence :9 facilities ,70 cases among residents ,53 cases among employees ,8 deaths( no change )
• Mercer :12 facilities ,101 cases among residents ,66 cases among employees ,10 deaths (1 more death )
• Venango: 1 facility ,5 cases among residents ,0 cases among employees ,0 deaths( no change )
• Washington :13 facili-ties ,79 cases among resi-dents ,18 cases among em-ployees ,11 deaths( no change )
• West more land :27 facil-ities ,318 cases among resi-dents ,84 cases among em-ployees ,31 deaths( no change )
• Pennsylvania :991 facil-ities ,23,232 cases among residents ,5,153 cases among employees ,5,483 deaths (4 more deaths) For additional informa-tion on Allegheny County data, visit the county’ s C OVID -19 Dashboard. More information on state-wide results can be found on the Pennsylvania Health Department’ s web-site.