State tops 70K cases; county says no new deaths
Pennsylvania surpassed 70,000 cases of COVID-19, according to the latest figures released Thursday by the state Department of Health. Forty-six of those cases were reported in Western Pennsylvania.
The state also reported 108 new deaths because of the virus. Only one was reported in Western Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, bringing its toll to 161. The county’s numbers do not agree, however. The county said it has 151 deaths, a figure that’s unchanged from the previous day. The county said 140 deaths are confirmed, and 11 are probable.
Since Allegheny County’s first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 14, it has had 1,851 cases — 1,742 confirmed and 109 probable.
As of Thursday, 331 people in Allegheny County have been hospitalized due to the disease. Of them, 127 required a stay in the intensive care unit, and 67 required mechanical ventilation. Allegheny County has administered at least 30,644 tests, 813 of them in the past 24 hours. Allegheny has the capacity to administer roughly 2,000 tests per day.
Thursday marked the 18th straight day the state reported fewer than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19. The statewide count is now 70,042. The death count is 5,373.
Here are the positive cases reported Thursday across Western Pennsylvania:
• Allegheny: 1,851 (up 23 from Wednesday)
• Armstrong: 62 (up 1)
• Beaver: 579 (up 9)
• Butler: 226 (up 4)
• Cambria: 57 (no change)
• Clarion: 25 (no change)
• Clearfield: 37 (no change)
• Crawford: 23 (no change)
• Erie: 242 (up 7)
• Fayette: 95 (no change)
• Forest: 7 (no change)
• Greene: 27 (no change)
• Indiana: 90 (no change)
• Jefferson: 7 (no change)
• Lawrence: 74 (no change)
• Mercer: 106 (no change)
• Somerset: 37 (no change)
• Venango: 8 (no change)
• Washington: 139 (up 1)
• Westmoreland: 443 (up 1) For additional information on Allegheny County data, visit the county’s COVID-19 Dashboard. More information on statewide results can be found on the Department of Health website.