The Allegheny County Health Department reported eight more deaths and 16 additional cases of the coronavirus Thursday, bringing the countywide case count to 1,289. There have been 94 deaths.

Of the 94 reported deaths, 84 are listed as confirmed cases of covid-19, while 10 are considered probable.

The youngest person to have died from the virus in Allegheny County was 42 and had underlying conditions, health department officials said.

The 16 additional cases are compared to 38 confirmed or probable cases reported Wednesday.

There were 13 confirmed or probable cases reported Sunday, 13 reported Monday and 11 reported Tuesday.

Countywide, there have been 1,244 confirmed and 45 probable cases of the coronavirus since the first was reported in the county March 14.

A case is listed as probable when a person displays symptoms of covid-19 and has had close contact with a confirmed positive case, but has not had a test themselves. The county health department is including those probable cases to assess community spread.

More than 16,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus in Allegheny County.

Allegheny County is on track to start reopening as the number of new cases reported each day taper, county officials said during a press briefing Wednesday.

A county must report 50 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents over a 14-day span in order for the state to consider lifting some restrictions, according to a color-coded system for a phased reopening of the state issued by Gov. Tom Wolf.

For the Allegheny County population of 1.3 million, that means the county must report fewer than 650 new, confirmed cases over a 14-day period.

From April 10 to April 23, the latest 14-day period for which the county has complete data, there were been 328 new, confirmed cases, and the infection rate has consistently been less than 10%, county officials said.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 97 new deaths statewide Thursday. That brought the statewide total to 2,292. There have now been 45,763 cases of covid-19 since the state saw its first two positive tests on March 6.

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