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Health officials said a woman in her 50s who lives in Philadelphia and Bucks County is recovering after being infected with the new strain. (Shutterstock)
BUCKS COUNTY, PA The new coronavirus strain has been identified in Bucks County, according to health officials.
In an announcement Friday, Philadelphia health officials said the B.1.1.7 variant of coronavirus has been found in a Bucks County woman.
The woman, who is in her 50s and also a Philadelphia resident, was found to have been infected by the new strain.
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Officials said she began experiencing symptoms the last week of December and was briefly hospitalized. Now, she is recovering.
COVID-19 vaccination efforts grow across Delaware Valley, but health officials ask for patience
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To date, more than 311,000 Pennsylvanians have been vaccinated.
In the area s four largest counties, partial vaccinations are now mostly in the ten of thousands, with Montgomery County leading the way.
Bucks County is reporting the most fully vaccinated people in the region.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that the administration in the states has been too narrowly focused. We re just asking people to be patient. You know this is a process that we don t really have a lot of control over. The state is setting the guidelines for how it is rolled out, said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie.
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Like many other parents across Pennsylvania and the nation, Lynn Rutecki feels that providing a full or close to full-time in-person instructional choice amid spiraling COVID-19 case numbers is very misguided.
So when the Neshaminy School District replaced its hybrid option at the elementary schools with a four-days-a-week classroom choice on Nov. 30, forcing her to enroll her third-grade son Jake in the four-days option if he wanted any in-person learning time, Rutecki felt compelled to take action.
The Middletown resident formed a Facebook group called Bucks County Parents Advocating Safety that has since attracted more than 1,000 members from all 13 school districts in the county, she said.