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Westmoreland County adds 15 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County on Wednesday reported 15 new coronavirus cases. The county’s total is 1,763 cases. Of the total cases, 1,708 are confirmed with 55 considered probable. The 7-day average is 15 cases. The fatality total remains at 49 with no new covid-19 deaths reported in the county in more than...
Pennsylvania reports 501 new coronavirus cases, 19 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Wednesday reported 501 additional cases of coronavirus to bring the state’s total to 130,536. Of the total cases, 126,835 are confirmed and 3,701 are considered probable. There have been 1,457,642 negative tests, according to the Department of Health. The daily positivity rate is 3.86%. Pa. coronavirus by dayInfogram...
Allegheny County adds 14 additional coronavirus cases, eclipses 10,000 total
Allegheny County passed a pandemic milestone on Wednesday when 14 new coronavirus cases put the total number of cases at 10,004. The 14 new cases marked the lowest daily reported total since mid-June. Of the cases, 9,694 are confirmed and 310 are considered probable. There were 1,151 new test results...
Westmoreland County reports 18 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County had 18 new cases of covid-19 Friday, according to the state Department of Health. The county’s total cases are now 1,696 with 1,643 confirmed and 53 probable. The seven-day average for the county is 15 cases. Westmoreland has reported 287 coronavirus cases so far in August. Westmoreland County...
Pennsylvania reports 693 new coronavirus cases, 20 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Friday reported an additional 693 cases of covid-19, bringing total cases to 127,633, according to the state Department of Health. The seven-day average has dropped to 669 cases, its lowest since July 6. The state is reporting 510 patients currently hospitalized, 93 of which are on ventilators. Pa....
Allegheny County’s 7-day average of coronavirus cases drops to lowest since June
Allegheny County’s seven-day average of new covid-19 cases on Friday dropped to 68 as 80 new instances were reported. It’s the lowest average recorded since late June. The seven-day average peaked at 206 on July 17 and has been steadily dropping. The county’s total cases are now 9,756. Of those,...
Westmoreland County adds 7 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County on Friday reported single-digit new coronavirus cases for the fourth time this month. The seven new cases bring the county’s total reported cases to 1,593, with 1,549 of those confirmed and 44 probable. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram There were no new deaths attributed to covid-19 in the...
Pennsylvania reports 829 new coronavirus cases, 36 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Friday reported 829 new coronavirus cases, just slightly above the seven-day average of 810. The Department of Health reported 36 new deaths attributed to coronavirus. That’s the most in more than a week. One of those deaths was from June and one from July. The rest were in...
Allegheny County reports 90 new coronavirus cases, 5 additional deaths
Allegheny County on Friday recorded 90 new coronavirus cases and five additional deaths. The Allegheny County Health Department raised its case total to 9,282 since March 14. Of the 90 new cases, 49 are confirmed and 41 probable. The positive test results came from tests from July 31 through Aug....
Westmoreland County edges up with 23 new coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County on Saturday reported 23 new coronavirus cases, the most in more than a week. The county had been reporting less than 20 new cases per day in August. The current 7-day average is 14 cases per day in the county, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Westmoreland...
Pennsylvania reports 813 new coronavirus cases, 16 deaths
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported an additional 813 cases of coronavirus. The state’s total cases is 118,092 since the pandemic began. Of the new cases, 114,755 are confirmed with 3,337 considered probable, according to the state Department of Health. The 16 new reported deaths bring the total attributed to covid-19 to...
Allegheny County reports 87 new coronavirus cases, 1 death
The Allegheny County Health Department on Saturday reported 87 new covid-19 cases, bringing the total reported cases to 8,796. The department added one new death, for a total of 258 attributed to covid-19. Nine new hospitalizations were reported to the county. Allegheny County coronavirus by day...
Pennsylvania reports 860 new coronavirus cases, 14 deaths
Pennsylvania’s total cases of coronavirus has reached 111,078. The state’s Department of Health on Thursday reported 860 new cases. Officials said the number of tests administered statewide within the past seven days is 163,936, with 6,822 individual positive cases being found. With 14 new deaths, the statewide total is now...
Allegheny County sets record for new coronavirus hospitalizations; sees triple-digit cases for 8th straight day
Allegheny County has been consistently reporting new coronavirus cases in the triple digits. Thursday’s report of 132 new cases from the Allegheny County Health Department is the eighth in a row above 100. The report included a record 23 new hospitalizations and one new death. Of the new cases, 126...
31 new coronavirus cases reported in Westmoreland County
Westmoreland County has 31 new coronavirus cases, according to the latest report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The total of 1,382 cases through Thursday includes 1,344 confirmed and 38 probable. There were 328 new test results reported Thursday by the health department, with a positivity rate of 9.5%. Westmoreland...
Westmoreland County adds 20 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths
Westmoreland County on Thursday saw 20 new coronavirus cases, bringing the county’s running total to 1,234, according to data released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. With no reports of any new deaths related to covid-19 in Westmoreland County, the count remains at 41. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram Of...
Pennsylvania reports 962 new coronavirus cases, 16 additional deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday reported 962 new coronavirus cases statewide and 16 additional deaths. The state’s total now sits at 104,358 cases and 7,079 deaths attributed to covid-19. Pa. coronavirus by dayInfogram The number of tests administered within the last seven days is 147,837, with 5,731 cases...
Allegheny County reports 147 new coronavirus cases, 15 new hospitalizations
Allegheny County on Thursday reported 147 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths. Of those cases, 140 are confirmed and seven are probable. That brings the total number of cases of covid-19 in the county to 6,817. There were 15 new hospitalizations, raising the total to 551, according to the...
Westmoreland County reports 28 new coronavirus cases, no deaths
Westmoreland County has reported double-digit cases of cornavirus for the 17th consecutive day. The county on Friday reported 28 new coronavirus cases, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, bringing the total to 1,117. Of those, 1,085 are listed as confirmed and 32 are probable cases. Westmoreland County coronavirus by...
Pennsylvania covid-19 cases jump by 1,032; 19 new deaths reported
Pennsylvania reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in two months as it approaches the 100,000 mark. The 1,032 new cases announced Friday are the most the state has reported since May 10 and bring the total to 99,478. The state’s department of health reported 19 more deaths, bringing the...
Allegheny County reports 240 new coronavirus cases, 17 additional hospitalizations
The latest new batch of coronavirus cases reported in Allegheny County turned higher Friday, after two days of declines. The county reported 240 new cases, out of 2,118 total tests conducted from June 29 through July 16. That brings the county’s total cases to date to 5,990. Of the total...
Collectible seashells pile up on Outer Banks during coronavirus tourist banVideo
Seashells don’t normally stand a chance on Outer Banks beaches this time of year. The interesting ones get snatched up by families on spring break and end up as keepsakes or in crafts back home. This year, the coronavirus pandemic prompted counties along North Carolina’s coast to close their beaches...
Signs of encouragement appear in windows across Western Pa.
It’s a sign of the times. People hunkered down in their homes waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to recede can’t help sending messages to the outside world. While many are dispatching to a broad audience via social media, others are taking a rather analog approach. Messages of support and encouragement...
Hundreds wait in long lines at Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank for food giveawayVideo
The line seems to be getting longer every week at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The organization on Monday held its fifth drive-up food distribution at its headquarters in Duquesne, serving 861 vehicles in three hours. About a half-hour before the noon start, vehicles were backed up onto Route...
Pittsburgh couple’s virus song goes viral on YouTubeVideo
A Pittsburgh couple used their housebound time to fight back at coronavirus with a parody song. Claire and Mel Vatz based their “We’re All Home Bound” on the Simon & Garfunkel classic “Homeward Bound.” The couple sent the video to about 35 friends and family Sunday night. The YouTube video...
