The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 452 people in the Murrysville area have had confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in March.
There have been 67 confirmed cases occurred in the past seven days. It is the fourth week in a row the area has seen an increase of 50 or more cases.
The health department on Monday released the figures for the three ZIP codes that comprise the region.
The largest number of cases, 239, are from residents in the 15668 area, which is strictly Murrysville. That represents an additional 32 cases.
In the 15632 area, which encompasses Export, much of eastern Murrysville and a slice of Washington Township, there were 149 confirmed cases, up an additional 27.
And there have been 64 confirmed cases in the 15626 area, which includes Delmont along with small slivers of Murrysville and Salem.
There have been 4,806 negative test results in those areas, figures show. Of the full number of tests administered, 5,258, the region has seen just under 9% come back positive.
Across its five buildings, the Franklin Regional School District has seen seven cases of covid-19 since the school year began, none of which caused schools to close. The school board voted 6-3 last week at an emergency meeting to send all students home for remote instruction this week, out of concern for potential community covid-19 spread after families return from the Thanksgiving holiday.
According to the state’s tracking website, in Westmoreland County there have been 7,339 confirmed cases, 1,922 probable cases, 63,542 negative tests and 199 deaths since the outbreak began.
Westmoreland has added more than 1,300 cases in the past week of testing. For purposes of comparison, for the first six months of the pandemic, March through August, the county registered 1,815 cases total.
Despite a small spike in late June and early July, the county’s daily confirmed case counts had remained relatively low until a sharp uptick beginning in late September. That number went back and forth, but has remained much higher than in the pandemic’s early stages, reaching an all-time single day high of 284 positive cases reported on Nov. 28.
