Westmoreland County adds 19 new cases to covid-19 list
Westmoreland County saw 19 new coronavirus cases added on Monday, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
It is the county’s third straight day new cases have been below 20, the first time that’s happened since June 24-26.
No new deaths were announced Monday, leaving the county’s death toll from covid-19 at 46.
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 31,208 individual resident tested, with 95.3% testing negative.
Of Monday’s new cases, all were confirmed positives.
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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