A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walk past a boarded up business in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 21, 2020.
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Your daily coronavirus update: New COVID-19 infections, deaths both comparatively low
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A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walk past a boarded up business in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 21, 2020.
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Pennsylvania officials reported comparatively low figures for new COVID-19 infections and deaths on Monday, a sign the pandemic’s impact may be on the wane.
The Health Department said there were 12 additional deaths, bringing the total number this year to 5,567, of which 3,557 have occurred among nursing homes or personal care facilities.
The agency said 356 new cases were reported, a figure that may reflect that reports from weekends have generally brought lower numbers. So far more than 72,000 Pennsylvanians have had confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The department’s seven-day rolling average graphic reflects this recent downturn in cases. The one exception: the northwest region of the state, which has few cases overall but is on an upward trend.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Today’s data also show the lowest day-over-day percentage increase in cases since WITF started tracking that metric on March 6. And for seven of the past eight days, the increase in total cases was less than 1 percent.
Click through the slides below to see the data.
Here are the latest figures for central Pennsylvania counties:
- Adams: 250 cases, including 8 deaths
- Berks: 4074 cases, including 317 deaths
- Columbia: 348 cases, including 31 deaths
- Cumberland: 635 cases, including 52 deaths
- Dauphin: 1303 cases, including 74 deaths
- Franklin: 777 cases, including 35 deaths
- Juniata: 95 cases, including 4 deaths
- Lancaster: 3189 cases, including 297 deaths
- Lebanon: 972 cases, including 33 deaths
- Mifflin: 59 cases, including 1 death
- Northumberland: 194 cases, including 3 deaths
- Perry: 61 cases, including 3 deaths
- Schuylkill: 631 cases, including 34 deaths
- Snyder: 45 cases, including 1 death
- Union: 62 cases, including 1 death
- York: 1013 cases, including 26 deaths
The number of infections is thought to be far higher than the confirmed count because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected without feeling sick.
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