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Westmoreland County added 89 new coronavirus cases and 24 hospitalizations on Wednesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Those new cases bring the county’s total of covid-19 cases to 3,703 with a seven-day average of 93 new cases per day. The 89 cases — 67 confirmed and 22 probable...

Allegheny County added 119 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths Wednesday. The new covid-19 cases bring the total to 14,396 cases, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. Of the 119 new cases, 91 are confirmed and 28 probable, with 24 of the probables coming from positive antigen tests. The...

Pennsylvania reported 1,276 new coronavirus cases and 27 deaths on Wednesday, marking the ninth straight day with more than a thousand cases. Those new additions bring respective totals to 175,922 cases and 8,411 deaths since the first cases were reported in March, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The...

Westmoreland County on Tuesday became Pennsylvania’s 16th county to surpass 3,000 coronavirus cases. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 60 new cases in the county, bringing the total to 3,053. The state didn’t add any new deaths, leaving the county’s total at 64. The county added 309 test results, with...

Allegheny County reported 97 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the sixth straight day in double digits after hitting triple digits twice earlier this month. The 97 new cases bring its total to 13,533, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. Of those 97 cases, 55 are confirmed and 42 are...

Pennsylvania added more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, its second-highest daily total since May. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, there were 1,309 positive cases of covid-19, bringing the state total to 166,552. Besides the two-day total of 2,251 reported on Oct. 3, it’s the highest daily total...

Westmoreland County added 39 more coronavirus cases for the second day in a row. The 39 new cases bring the county’s total to 2,539, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. There were no new deaths reported, leaving the county’s total at 57 for the third day. The county added...

Allegheny County recorded 43 new positive coronavirus test results and three new deaths Wednesday, according to the county’s health department. The 43 new cases — 33 confirmed and 10 probable — bring the county’s total to 12,897. The new cases, which range from 8 months to 70 years old with...

Pennsylvania had its fifth day in September with more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 1,153 new cases, its third-highest day of the month, bringing the total to 158,967. The state also reported 19 new deaths on Wednesday, with one from July and...

Westmoreland County added 17 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The new cases bring the county’s total to 2,277 since the first cases were reported in March. For the month of September, 462 new cases were reported in the county, its second-highest monthly total...

Allegheny County surpassed 2,000 positive coronavirus cases for the month of September with 43 new cases reported Wednesday. The Allegheny County Health Department said there were 43 cases, with 15 confirmed and 28 probable (of those probables, 17 are positive antigen tests), from 516 PCR tests. Those new tests bring...

Pennsylvania reported 39 deaths attributed to covid-19 Wednesday, the highest reported in a single day since 39 were reported June 25. Those deaths bring the state’s total to 8,062, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The state also added 898 new coronavirus cases, bringing that total to 152,544. The...

Westmoreland County posted its second highest single-day total of reported coronavirus cases Wednesday. According to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Westmoreland added 39 positive covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. The county’s highest one-day mark was set April 25 when 43 cases were reported. The county now...

The Allegheny County Health Department reported 46 new coronavirus cases and three new deaths on Wednesday. Those new cases bring the county’s total to 11,867 since the first case was reported on March 14. The state is reporting 354 deaths in Allegheny County, which differs from the county health department’s...

Pennsylvania on Wednesday added 776 new coronavirus cases as well as 28 deaths to its totals. The cases bring the state’s total to 146,990 positive cases and 7,903 deaths, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The health department said that 173,390 tests were administered over the last...

Westmoreland County on Wednesday surpassed 2,000 total coronavirus cases. The county saw 10 new confirmed cases added, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, bringing the total to 2,003 since the first cases were recorded in the county in March. The county’s death toll remained at 49, where it’s been...

Allegheny County reported 73 new coronavirus cases, 36 new hospitalizations and no new deaths Wednesday. The county’s case total grew to 11,431, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. The state is reporting 341 deaths in Allegheny County, which differs from the county health department’s report of 363 deaths. The...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 931 new positive coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with a large number stemming from Centre County, the home of Penn State’s main campus. Centre County added 184 new cases on Wednesday, with that one-day total accounting for more than 21 percent of the county’s total...

Westmoreland County added seven new covid-19 cases to its total Wednesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The newly reported cases bring the county’s total to 1,914 since the first case was reported March 19. There were no new deaths reported, keeping the county’s total at 49, where it’s...

Allegheny County on Wednesday added 68 coronavirus cases and nine deaths to its totals. The additional cases bring the county’s totals to 10,915 positive covid-19 cases and 358 deaths, according to the county’s health department. The 68 new cases (62 confirmed and six probable) come from 663 tests, with the...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health added 816 new positive cases of covid-19 on Wednesday, bringing the state total to 135,611. Nineteen deaths were added, with those ranging from Aug. 13-31. There are now 7,712 deaths in the state attributed to the coronavirus. Pa. coronavirus by dayInfogram Allegheny County saw the...

Westmoreland County added 18 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday after three straight days of single-digit cases. The new cases bring the county’s total to 1,837, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. There were no new deaths reported, leaving the county’s total at 49 where it’s remained since...

Allegheny County added 68 new coronavirus cases and nine deaths on Wednesday, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. The nine deaths are the highest single-day total since July 12 and the fifth-highest in the county since the virus was first detected locally in March. The new deaths range from...

Westmoreland County added 18 new coronavirus cases and one death, according to data from the Pennsylvania Health Department. The new positive cases bring the county’s total to 1,658, with 1,608 confirmed and 50 probable. There have been 49 deaths in the county, with three in August. State data shows that...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health added 570 positive covid-19 cases and 24 deaths on Wednesday. The new cases bring the state’s total to 126,149. The health department added 24 deaths to its totals, with 21 from August, two from July and one from April. The state’s death total now sits...