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Allegheny County reports no new deaths, reassigns 1 to another county
Allegheny County on Thursday reported 270 additional coronavirus cases and no new coronavirus deaths.
Though the county did not add any deaths in the new report, one death previously reported was reassigned to a different county, which was not identified, resulting in a reduction in the total number of deaths in Allegheny.
The number of deaths in Allegheny County because of covid-19 stands at 1,563.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health puts the county’s death total at 1,620. The county and state have had different figures for deaths in the county. No reason is given for the difference.
According to data from the state, there have been 36 covid-related deaths in the county this month.
The additional 270 coronavirus cases bring the county’s total to 72,447 since the start of the pandemic in March.
The county’s seven-day average is 281 cases and the seven-day total cases is 1,969. Both these figures have dropped significantly since the beginning of the year. On Jan. 1 the seven-day average was 579 cases and seven-day total cases was 4,055.
Of the new cases, the county said that 196 were confirmed through 1,277 new PCR tests conducted from Jan. 14 to Wednesday, and 74 were probable. Five positive tests are more than a week old.
The state Department of Health defines a probable case as one in which a patient has “a positive serology (antibody) test and either covid-19 symptoms or a high-risk exposure” to someone who has been confirmed to have coronavirus.
The new cases range in age from 5 months to 97 years with a median age of 41. The age groups of the newly reported cases — 141 male and 129 female — are:
0-4: 2 5-12: 2 13-18: 21 19-24: 31 25-49: 106 50-64: 54 65+: 54According to the state’s covid-19 dashboard, 242 Allegheny County residents are currently hospitalized for covid (down seven from Wednesday), 67 of them are in intensive care units and 23 are on ventilators.
In her weekly press conference on Wednesday Dr. Debra Bogen, the Allegheny County Health Department director, said that the county’s overall infection levels have been improving — with hospitalizations and the rate of daily cases declining.
But she encouraged people to be vigilant in protecting themselves against the virus as vaccine supply remains a challenge.
Allegheny County officials also said that the covid-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom has been detected in the county.
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