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Taylor Corbin, 4, (center) helps block captain Roslyn Myers inflate a hopper ball for a Playstreets event in the 5800 block of Delancey Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Updated: 3:25 p.m.
Pennsylvania officials announced 3,119 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the statewide total since the start of the pandemic to 970,917. As of 11:59 p.m. Monday, the state recorded 65 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the number of total fatalities to 24,652.
Philadelphia reported 312 additional confirmed cases on Tuesday, for a total of 117,768 since the beginning of the pandemic. The city’s Department of Public Health confirmed an additional 39 fatalities Tuesday, which brings the total number of deaths attributable to the virus in Philadelphia to 3,217.