A sign blocks access to a portion of the parking lot outside Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster, Pa., on April 7, 2020. A coronavirus testing center will operate out of several tents erected in the stadium parking lot.
Russ Walker / PA Post
Your daily coronavirus update: Pennsylvania counts another day with more than 1,000 new cases
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Russ Walker / PA Post
A sign blocks access to a portion of the parking lot outside Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster, Pa., on April 7, 2020. A coronavirus testing center will operate out of several tents erected in the stadium parking lot.
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Last week, Pennsylvania experienced a string of four days with fewer than 1,000 new reported cases of the coronavirus. It was the longest streak since daily reports of new cases reached four figures in early April. At the time, Health Secretary Rachel Levine called the four-day dip below 1,000 “good news.”
But the streak did not last.
Today, state health officials reported a fourth consecutive day with new cases above 1,000. The addition of 1,295 cases brings the statewide total to 56,611.
The Department of Health also reported 19 more deaths today, for a total 3,707.
A total of 10,239Â people in central Pennsylvania 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, 496Â died from COVID-19.
Today’s update includes one newly reported death in Berks County.
- Adams: 159 cases, including 5 deaths
- Berks: 3371 cases, including 170 deaths
- Columbia: 324 cases, including 28 deaths
- Cumberland: 434 cases, including 33 deaths
- Dauphin: 823 cases, including 36 deaths
- Franklin: 493 cases, including 12 deaths
- Juniata: 93 cases, including 1 death
- Lancaster: 2223 cases, including 166 deaths
- Lebanon: 811 cases, including 16 deaths
- Mifflin: 52 cases
- Northumberland: 124 cases
- Perry: 35 cases, including 1 death
- Schuylkill: 451 cases, including 13 deaths
- Snyder: 33 cases, including 1 death
- Union: 40 cases, including 1 death
- York: 773 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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