The rate of new cases in Pennsylvania continues to slow, even as it reports 60 new deaths.
Allegheny County reported 11 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, a 1.2% increase from Tuesday, bringing the total known caseload to 904. The county also reported two deaths and four additional hospitalizations.
Overall, the county has recorded 146 total COVID-19 hospitalizations, including patients who have been discharged. The death toll is 26.
The City of Pittsburgh on Wednesday announced that a long-time Environmental Services Bureau employee died from complications of COVID-19. The employee, who is not named, drove trucks and started working for the city in 1995. He did not contract the virus at work, the release said.
“I am praying for his family, friends and co-workers in these tragic times. The pandemic may be global but it’s still hitting us very close to home,” Mayor Bill Peduto said in a statement.
Pennsylvania on Wednesday reported 1,145 new COVID-19 cases , a 4.5% increase since Tuesday, along with 63 new deaths. The state’s caseload stands at 26,490 and its death toll is 647.
The eastern part of the state has been hit far more severely than Southwestern Pennsylvania. Luzerne, Lehigh, Northampton, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Philadelphia counties each have more than 1,000 confirmed cases; Philadelphia County has 7,437 cases. Allegheny County is the only county in the western half of the state with more than 300 confirmed cases.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said she is confident the state has begun to flatten the curve of new COVID-19 cases.
The reason she thinks so is that that she said the state would’ve had more than 60,000 cases by now if it had been increasing exponentially, but instead the Tuesday total of cases came in at 25,345.
Levine hinted at how the state would reopen, saying that it would likely happen piecemeal, rolling in certain counties sooner than others. Levine had previously predicted it could be two months before the mitigation efforts were rolled back but said Tuesday that she believed at least some places would open before that, depending on when Gov. Tom Wolf decides.
Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine. (Pennsylvania Department of Health)
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