Centre County added three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the local total to 122 since the first was reported on March 20.
Statewide, there have been 57,991 cases, with 837 new positives on Tuesday. It was the second day in a row the state had fewer than 1,000 new cases. With 75 new COVID-19 deaths reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the commonwealth death toll from the virus is now 3,806.
The health department still lists two COVID-19 deaths in Centre County, though Coroner Scott Sayers reported a third on Saturday.
The second and third deaths were both residents of The Oaks at Pleasant Gap, the senior living community confirmed. One, a 96-year-old man, died on Friday at Mount Nittany Medical Center. The other, an 89-year-old woman, died on Saturday at the medical center. Centre County’s first COVID-19 death was an 89-year-old man who died at the medical center on April 16.
Updated health department data reports 15 resident and seven employee cases at three Centre County nursing and personal care homes. Where each case is located is not clear, as DOH does not list cases by facilities. The Oaks has confirmed resident and employee cases. Wynwood House in State College and Centre Crest in Bellefonte have both reported an employee case.
According to available DOH data, Centre County case counts by zip code are:
16823 (Bellefonte): 34
16801 (State College): 28
16803 (State College): 19
16827 (Boalsburg): 9
16870 (Port Matilda): 8
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 190 cases, Mifflin has 52, Clinton and Union each have 41, Blair and Clearfield each have 30.
A total of 237,989 patients in Pennsylvania have tested negative for COVID-19, including 1,291 people in Centre County. Across the state, 2,187 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, with 473 requiring a ventilator, as of noon on Tuesday.
Individual county data for Pennsylvania is available at the Department of Health website.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health does not provide data on recovered patients. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has had 1,351,248 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 80,900 deaths and 232,733 recoveries.
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