The most recent state data shows 385 people in the Murrysville area have had confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in March, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
The area registered an additional 68 confirmed cases in the past seven days. It is the third week in a row the area has seen an increase of 50 or more cases.
The health department on Monday released the most recent figures for the three ZIP codes that comprise the region. The health department keeps a count of cases and test results for communities based on ZIP codes.
The largest number of cases, 207, are from residents in the 15668 ZIP code, which is strictly Murrysville. That represents an additional 44 cases.
The 15632 ZIP code, which encompasses Export, much of eastern Murrysville and a slice of Washington Township, shows 122 confirmed cases, up an additional 16.
And there have been 56 confirmed cases in the 15626 ZIP code, which includes Delmont along with small slivers of Murrysville and Salem.
There have been 4,552 negative test results in those areas, figures show. Of the full number of tests administered, 4,937, the region has seen just under 8% 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 will hold an emergency meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight to discuss sending all students home for online instruction the week after Thanksgiving. Meetings are streamed through the district’s YouTube channel.
According to the state’s tracking website, in Westmoreland County there have been 6,020 confirmed cases, 1,626 probable cases, 60,550 negative tests and 167 deaths since the outbreak began.
Westmoreland added 892 cases in the past week of testing. For purposes of comparison, that is more cases in one week than the county saw from March through July.
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 larger than in the pandemic’s early stages, reaching an all-time single day high of 249 positive cases reported on Nov. 18.
