Westmoreland County on Wednesday had six new covid-19 cases, bringing the total number to 473, according to Pennsylvania health officials.
No new deaths from the virus were reported in Westmoreland. State officials continued to report 38 deaths, while county coroner Kenneth Bacha reports 32 deaths as of May 7. Bacha is updating figures only when a new case is reported to his office. Westmoreland is one of the counties that shifted into the green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s reopening plan last Friday. All of the state’s 67 counties are in the yellow or green phase.
State officials on Wednesday reported 48 more covid-19 deaths and 410 additional cases, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 76,846.
A total of 6,062 people have died from the virus. More than 467,000 people have tested negative. More than 11,800 of those negatives tests are from Westmoreland County.
For the most recent state data on covid-19, see health.pa.gov.
