Westmoreland County on Thursday added 86 additional covid cases and one death, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported.
Of the 86 new cases reported, 49 are confirmed and 37 probable. The total number of cases in Westmoreland County now stands at 25,602 with 18,306 confirmed and 7,296 probable since the first cases were reported in March.
The newly-reported deaths now bring the county’s death toll to 646.
There have been 83,802 people in the county who have tested negative for the virus.
The state Department of Health defines a probable case as one in which a patient has “a positive serology (antibody) test and either covid-19 symptoms or a high-risk exposure” to someone who has been confirmed to have coronavirus.
February has only seen two days with reported covid cases above 100 (Feb. 2 and Feb. 3).
The county’s seven-day average is 76 cases and the county’s seven-day cases count is 534. These figures are down from last Thursday when the seven-day average was 87 and seven-day case count was 612.
According to the state’s covid-19 dashboard, 125 Westmoreland County residents are hospitalized for covid-19 (down five from Wednesday), seven of them are in intensive care units and four of them are on ventilators.
