Westmoreland County on Thursday added 107 additional covid cases and four deaths, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported.

The newly-reported deaths now bring the county’s death toll to 557. There have been 134 deaths attributed to the disease reported this month in the county.

The total number of cases in Westmoreland County now stands at 23,731 with 17,187 confirmed and 6,544 probable since the first cases were reported in March. There have been 78,896 people in the county who have tested negative for the virus.

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 county’s seven-day average is 145 cases and the county’s seven-day total case count is 1,018. These figures are down from a week ago when the county had a seven-day average of 244 cases and 1,710 cases in the previous seven-day period. Thursday’s seven-day average is the lowest since Nov. 14 when 134 cases was the average.

According to the state’s covid-19 dashboard, 146 Westmoreland County residents are hospitalized for covid-19, 11 of them are in intensive care units and 6 of them are on ventilators.

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