Over the past two days, Westmoreland County added 331 new covid-19 cases, according to Monday’s update from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
The county added 175 cases (87 confirmed) on Sunday and 156 (123 confirmed) on Monday.
Since the pandemic began in March, the county has recorded a total of 7,646 cases — confirmed and probable — of coronavirus. 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.
The state also announced there were five more covid-related deaths since Saturday, bringing the county’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 167.
There have been 63 deaths this month, while in October, there were 47 deaths reported in Westmoreland County.
According to the state’s covid-19 dashboard, 82 Westmoreland County residents are hospitalized for covid-19, with six patients on a ventilator.
Westmoreland has seen a total of 6,020 PCR-confirmed cases of covid, with 60,550 residents tests coming back negative. That makes for an overall PCR positivity rate of 9.04%.
