Chris Comisac
HARRISBURG Christmas has come and gone, and while we won’t know for at least a week or two if Pennsylvanians heeded government warnings about the COVID-19 risks of large and small gathering during the holiday, the state’s virus-related numbers vastly improved through this past week and weekend.
For the week of Dec. 18 through Dec. 24, the state Health Department’s COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, updated Friday afternoon, showed the seven-day total of new cases was 10,321 fewer than the prior seven-day period of Dec. 11 through Dec. 17, which reported 4,371 fewer new cases than the prior seven-day period of Dec. 4 through Dec. 10. Pennsylvania is still experiencing sizable numbers of new cases for the most-recent seven-day period recorded by the dashboard, a total of 47,813 new cases were reported but the latest reported seven-day total is the lowest since the start of December.
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With the latest COVID-19 numbers from Sunday and Monday, Cumberland County has now surpassed 10,000 cases of the disease since the start of the pandemic in March.
Though there were low numbers of total reported tests over the last two days, likely due to the Christmas holiday, Cumberland County reported a relatively high number of positives, growing by 76 new cases Sunday and 74 new cases Monday. The county now has 10,047 total COVID-19 cases.
The increase comes with only about 200 tests were reported each day. Judging by just the number of reported confirmed positive tests and number of reported negative tests, the county saw about 34.2% of its tests come back positive in Sunday s report and 32.7% of its tests come back positive in Monday s report.