Westmoreland adds 9 new covid-19 cases, no deaths
Westmoreland County saw nine new cases of covid-19 added to its total on Thursday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
For the sixth straight day, the county did not see a covid-19 related death added to its total of 46 to date.
After averaging 25 new cases a day in July, the county has seen that average drop to 13 so far in August.
There are seven people currently hospitalized for covid-19 in Westmoreland County, according to the state’s covid-19 dashboard — one of them on a ventilator.
To date, the county has seen 32,210 individual residents tested, with 95.4% testing negative.
Of Thursday’s new cases, all were confirmed positives.
To date, there have been 1,484 Westmoreland County residents who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Chris Pastrick is a TribLive digital producer. An Allegheny County native, he began working for the Valley News Dispatch in 1993 and joined the Trib in 1997. He can be reached at cpastrick@triblive.com.
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