Vendors and shoppers don masks while at Lancaster Central Market on May 9, 2020.
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Your daily coronavirus update: Pennsylvania now reporting 3,688 coronavirus-related deaths
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Vendors and shoppers don masks while at Lancaster Central Market on May 9, 2020.
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State health officials are reporting another 72 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with the coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 3,688.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Saturday that there were more than 1,000 additional positive cases of COVID19, sending the statewide total above 55,300.
A total of 9,999 people in central Pennsylvania counties have tested positive or are presumed to have had the virus since the first cases were reported in the region on March 13. Of those who tested positive, 495Â died from COVID-19.
Today’s update includes eight newly reported deaths in Columbia County, two in Cumberland, one in Berks, one in Franklin and one in Lancaster. The death count in Dauphin County decreased by one.
- Adams: 156 cases, including 5 deaths
- Berks: 3257 cases, including 169 deaths
- Columbia: 323 cases, including 28 deaths
- Cumberland: 425 cases, including 33 deaths
- Dauphin: 797 cases, including 36 deaths
- Franklin: 478 cases, including 12 deaths
- Juniata: 93 cases, including 1 death
- Lancaster: 2185 cases, including 166 deaths
- Lebanon: 805 cases, including 16 deaths
- Mifflin: 50 cases
- Northumberland: 119 cases
- Perry: 34 cases, including 1 death
- Schuylkill: 437 cases, including 13 deaths
- Snyder: 33 cases, including 1 death
- Union: 40 cases, including 1 death
- York: 767 cases, including 13 deaths
Most deaths and hospitalizations have occurred among patients 65 or older. More than two-thirds of the deaths have occurred among residents in nursing homes and personal care homes.
The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick. There is no data on how many people have recovered.
For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms that clear up in a couple of weeks. Older adults and people with existing health problems are at higher risk of more severe illness, including pneumonia, or death.
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