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Pennsylvania sets single-day record for new covid cases
In adding 2,875 cases of coronavirus Tuesday, Pennsylvania set a record for new cases in a single day. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said of those new cases, 2,599 were confirmed from PCR tests and other 276 were probable cases. Officials also said 32 new deaths were reported, making 159...
Westmoreland adds 70 new coronavirus cases, 3 new deaths
Westmoreland County continues to see covid-related deaths reported on a daily basis, with three new such deaths added Tuesday. It is the 20th straight day the county has recorded at least one covid-related death. In that time, 45 deaths have been recorded. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 70 new...
Allegheny County adds 150 covid cases, 3 new deaths
Allegheny County added 150 cases of coronavirus Tuesday, the county’s Heath Department reported. Of the new cases, 95 were confirmed and 55 probable. The results come from 1,032 PCR tests conducted from Oct. 24-Nov. 2. Among the probable cases, 20 came from positive antigen tests. The new cases range in...
Westmoreland adds 129 covid cases over two days, 1 death
Westmoreland County added 129 new cases of coronavirus over the past two days, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday. Health officials said there were 66 cases added Sunday, 56 of them confirmed, 10 probable. There were 63 cases added Monday, with 53 confirmed, 10 probable. Officials said the county...
Pennsylvania reports nearly 4,000 new covid cases over past 2 days
Pennsylvania saw 3,969 new cases of covid-19 added over the past two days, the state’s Department of Health reported Monday. To break it down, the state added 1,909 cases on Sunday and 2,060 cases on Monday. “Daily increases are now the highest they have ever been since the start of...
Allegheny County adds 264 covid cases over past 2 days, no new deaths
Allegheny County added 264 cases of coronavirus over the past two days, the county Health Department reported Monday. Officials said there were 144 new cases on Sunday and 120 new cases on Monday. There were 203 confirmed cases from 2,755 PCR tests, which were conducted from Oct. 23 through Sunday....
Pennsylvania posts 2nd highest new covid case count, 22 deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health posted 2,641 new cases of coronavirus Friday, its second highest tally in a single day. The new cases include 2,416 new one-day positive cases and 225 cases from previous days that were reported Friday, according to the state. With the latest batch, the state’s seven-day...
Westmoreland County surpasses 100 covid-19 deaths
Westmoreland County has now seen more than 100 deaths attributed to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in March. The Pennsylvania Department of Health added two new covid-related deaths to the county’s total Friday, making 101 deaths since the first death was announced April 8. The county has...
Allegheny County adds 173 new covid cases, 7 new deaths
Allegheny County announced 173 new cases of covid-19 on Friday, according to the Health Department. Officials said of those new cases, 110 have been confirmed, based on 1,376 PCR tests conducted from Oct. 16-29. There were 63 probable cases, of which 37 came from positive antigen tests. The new cases...
Pennsylvania adds over 3,000 covid cases in past 2 days
Pennsylvania has seen more than 3,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the past two days, according to a report from the state Department of Health. In the report released Monday, health officials said 1,407 new cases were added Monday and 1,666 cases on Sunday. Among Monday’s cases, 1,310 were...
Westmoreland adds 125 covid cases over past 2 days, 3 new deaths
There were 125 new cases of covid-19 in Westmoreland County over the past two days, according to a report Monday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Health officials said another three people have died of the coronavirus — two reported Sunday, one on Monday. It’s the 12th consecutive day that...
Allegheny County adds 177 covid cases over past 2 days
The Allegheny County Health Department announced Monday there have been 177 new covid-19 cases over the past two days. In a report, the department said there were 73 new cases added Monday, while 104 new cases were added Sunday. The results come from 2,402 tests conducted from Oct. 15-25. Among...
NASA discovers water on moon's sunlit surface 
NASA announced Monday that its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed water on the sunlit surface of the moon. Officials said the finding indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface and not limited to cold, shadowed places. “We had indications that H2O — the familiar...
2020 stinks, Charlie Brown. No 'Great Pumpkin' on TV and other lame stuff to whine about 
It might be the most 2020 thing yet. Word comes that “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” will not be airing this year on broadcast TV. Nope. Not CBS. Not ABC. Not NBC. Not even C-SPAN! It’s the first time it’s happened since the special first aired in 1966 on...
Pennsylvania continues to report new daily covid case loads above 1,000
Pennsylvania added 1,103 cases of covid-19 on Monday, with another 1,269 cases added Sunday, according to a report from the state’s Department of Health. The positivity rate of the most recent days was 9.02% for Sunday’s new cases and 8.88% with Monday’s cases. Over the past seven days, the state...
Westmoreland County gets respite from triple-digit new covid cases
Westmoreland County added 63 new covid-19 cases on Monday, according to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In addition, 73 new cases were added on Sunday. It’s the first time since Wednesday the county has not had consecutive days of triple-digit new cases. Compared with other counties, the...
Allegheny County adds 215 new covid cases over 2 days, no new deaths
The Allegheny County Health Department announced 99 new cases of covid-19 on Monday. In addition, the department said 116 cases were added Sunday. The latest cases, which come from tests conducted between Oct. 12-18, range in age from 3 to 99 years old, with a median age of 41 years....
Westmoreland County sets another record with 90 new cases Monday, 2 deaths
Westmoreland County had 90 more covid-19 cases added in the past 24 hours Monday, with another 52 cases reported on Sunday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The new numbers are another record set for the county of nearly 349,000 residents. Over the past two days, Westmoreland County had...
Over 2 days, Pennsylvania adds over 2,250 new covid cases, 24 new deaths
Pennsylvania saw 2,254 new coronavirus cases over the past two days — 1,166 on Sunday, 1,088 on Monday — according to a report from state Department of Health on Monday. The state said 239,484 tests were conducted from Oct. 5-11, with 9,117 positives found. Six new covid-related deaths were reported...
Allegheny County adds 179 new covid cases over past 2 days
On Monday, the Allegheny County Health Department announced it found 179 new cases of coronavirus over the past two days. The breakdown — 97 cases on Sunday, 82 on Monday — were from 2,320 PCR tests conducted from Oct. 4-11. Of those new cases, 156 were confirmed, 23 probable. The...
Westmoreland has added over 200 covid cases in past week
Westmoreland County added 45 new covid-19 cases Monday, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county had the third highest new case count in the state Monday, coming in behind Philadelphia (76) and Allegheny (46). In the past seven days, Westmoreland County has had 215 new...
Pennsylvania adds 672 new covid cases, 11 new deaths
There were 672 new cases of coronavirus announced in Pennsylvania on Monday, according to a report from the state’s Department of Health. In the past seven days, 7,381 covid cases have been added to the state’s total of 164,207. It’s the fourth day the seven-day total has surpassed 7,000 cases,...
Allegheny County adds 46 new coronavirus cases
Allegheny County added 46 cases of coronavirus to its tally Monday, according to a report from the county Health Department. In the past seven days, the county has seen 543 new cases. The new positives come from 848 PCR tests conducted from Sept. 30-Oct. 4. The new cases range in...
Allegheny County adds 133 new covid cases in 2 days
Allegheny County’s covid cases increased by 133 over the past two days, the Health Department reported Monday. On Sunday, the county added 61 new cases, with all but one being confirmed. On Monday, there were 72 new cases added, with all but three being confirmed. In total, there were 1,867...
Westmoreland County adds 43 coronavirus cases over past 2 days
Westmoreland County saw its coronavirus case count increase by 43 over the past two days, according to a report Monday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county had 22 new cases on Sunday and 21 new ones on Monday, the department figures showed. One new Westmoreland County death related...


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