Region adds more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases in a week
May 12—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The eight-county region has collected more than 1,000 COVID-19 cases since the previous Pennsylvania Department of Health update on May 4 — and all but three of the counties saw triple-digit additions to virus totals.
Wednesday's state DOH update showed that Westmoreland County had the most instances with 468, followed by Centre County, which added 280, while Cambria County accumulated 135 new cases.
Indiana County was next with 127 cases; Blair County, 117; Clearfield County, 95; Somerset County, 36; and Bedford County, 34.
Westmoreland and Centre counties were the only areas to add any deaths in the seven-day period, with two each.
In that same time frame, the state saw 24,396 cases added to its total, which is now 2,849,663, and 101 fatalities.
The new number of Pennsylvania deaths attributed to the disease is 44,814.
According to the state Department of Health, novel COVID-19 instances are trending above 3,000 per day, as of this week.
Daily totals haven't reached that level since February.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows cases still ticking upward across the country, while hospitalizations are remaining steady at about 111 per day, as of Sunday, for the seven-day moving average.
Pennsylvania's positivity level has remained between 10% and 14.9% for that time period.
Additionally, eight more counties' community transmission levels have increased, according to the CDC.
Schuylkill, Northumberland, Snyder, Union, Wyoming, Lackawanna and Wayne counties are now at a medium level and Montour County is a high rate of transmission.
Sullivan, Bradford and Susquehanna counties have remained at a high level.
The rest of the state has a low transmission level.
