Allegheny County reports 8 new deaths, 11 more coronavirus cases

The Allegheny County Health Department on Tuesday reported eight new deaths and 11 additional cases of the coronavirus.

Of the total 87 deaths, 78 are listed as confirmed cases of covid-19, while nine are considered probable.

The new diagnoses bring the count of total of covid-19 cases to 1,235. Of those cases, 1,193 are confirmed and 42 are listed as probable.

A case is listed as probable when a person displays symptoms of covid-19 and has had close contact with a confirmed positive case but has not had a test themselves. The county health department is including those probable cases to assess community spread.

The youngest person to have died from the virus in Allegheny County was 42 and had underlying conditions, health department officials said.

Of the 222 people who have been hospitalized at some point in recent weeks, 87 have been admitted to an intensive care unit and 52 have required a ventilator.

More than 16,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus in Allegheny County.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 119 new deaths statewide Tuesday. That brought the confirmed total to 1,716. There have now been 43,264 cases of covid-19 since the state saw its first two positive tests on March 6.

There are now 19 inmates at the Allegheny County Jail who have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to figures posted to the jail website Monday.

That’s more than double the number of inmates who were reported to have tested positive Sunday.

The number of jail staff members who have tested positive stands at two.