Allegheny County on Friday reported a small drop in covid-19 numbers with 827 new cases added, the second day in a row below 1,000 new cases.

The county Health Department added 850 cases Thursday and the seven-day average is now down to 951 cases from a high of 1,067 just two days ago. The county’s cases are 37% down from last week.

Of the new cases, 741 are confirmed from 2,625 new PCR tests and 86 are listed as probable cases, according to the Health Department. The new reported cases range in age from 1 week to 98 years and have a median age of 47 years.

The new positive tests were administered between Nov. 13 and Thursday with 38 of those cases being more than a week old, the Health Department reports.

The county has seen a total of 44,684 covid cases since March, with 37,437 of those confirmed. There have been 286,510 people who tested negative for the virus.

Health officials define a probable case as one in which a patient has a positive viral antigen test or covid symptoms with a “high-risk exposure” to someone who has been confirmed to have coronavirus.

Allegheny County coronavirus by dayInfogram

The county reported 27 new covid-related deaths Friday, bringing the total to 770 since March, according to the county Health Department. The new deaths occurred from Nov. 20 to Thursday.

Two of the recent deaths were people in their 50s, three in their 60s, five in their 70s, nine in their 80s and eight in their 90s. Eleven of the deaths were associated with long-term care homes.

The county has 814 residents in the hospital for covid-19 with 214 of those in intensive care units and 122 on ventilators. There have been 2,768 hospitalizations for covid since March.

The daily PCR positivity rate for Allegheny is 28.23% and the overall positivity rate is 11.56%.

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