1 New COVID-19 Case in Centre County as Statewide Total Tops 70,000

The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday reported one new case of COVID-19 in Centre County. The county has now had 150 cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus since the first was reported on March 20.

In the past two weeks, the county has added 22 new cases.

Statewide, Pennsylvania has now had 70,042 total COVID-19 cases, with 625 new positives reported on Thursday. It was the 18th consecutive day the state has reported fewer than 1,000 new cases.

The health department estimates that 64 percent of patients with the virus — or about 44,827 Pennsylvanians — have recovered.

Of Pennsylvania’s total cases, ​68,104 are confirmed and 1,938 are probable.

The state also added 108 new COVID-19 deaths to its count on Thursday, bringing the total to 5,373.

Centre County has had six COVID-19 deaths. Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers reported that the most recent occurred on Wednesday when an 88-year-old man died at Mount Nittany Medical Center.

16823 (Bellefonte): 39

16801 (State College): 33

16803 (State College): 25

16827 (Boalsburg): 9 

16870 (Port Matilda): 9

16828 (Centre Hall), 16866 (Philipsburg), 16844 (Julian), 16841 (Howard), 16852 (Madisonburg) each have 1-4 cases. Specific numbers are not provided for zip codes with fewer than five cases. 

Among Centre County’s bordering counties, Huntingdon now has 228 cases, Mifflin has 58, Union has 56, Clinton has 55, Blair has 49 and Clearfield has 37.

A total of 357,804 patients in Pennsylvania have tested negative for COVID-19, including 2,016 people in Centre County. Across the state, 1,476 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, with 315 requiring a ventilator, as of noon on Thursday.