On Thursday, the CDC added Pennsylvania to the list of U.S. states with at least one case of Monkeypox reported as city officials announced that a probable case was identified in a Philadelphia resident.
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.
There were 183 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wednesday s report, an increase of six patients since Tuesday. Of those, 29 are in the ICU and 20 are on ventilators.
DOH: 225 new cases of COVID-19 and 7 additional deaths for Cumberland County in Wednesday s report cumberlink.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cumberlink.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DOH: 190 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths for Cumberland County in Monday s report cumberlink.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cumberlink.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.