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"There is no reason to believe at this time that those illnesses circulating in January would have been from COVID-19," a state Department of Health spokesman said.
The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry said Friday it was pressing for changes to the order.
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Franklin County now has its first positive case.
Cumberland County shows no new cases in Saturday's report and remains at 11 confirmed cases.
Borough parks and offices will be closed to public.
Health Secretary Rachel Levine said Saturday the state is seeing a spike in cases because more people are getting infected, not because testing has expanded.
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"There is a legitimate, credible threat that some hospitals, without funding support ... will close. There's no question in my mind that even the worst- or middle-case projections occur that we would see closures."
The GIANT Company announced Tuesday that all in-store pharmacies will open early on Wednesdays to accommodate older and immunocompromised members of the community.
Taking a cue from a Boston-area photographer, Roger Baumgartner is offering front porch portrait sessions from a safe, socially distant vantage point.
So far, deaths have been reported in Northampton, Allegheny, Lackawanna, Montgomery, Monroe, Luzerne and Philadelphia counties.
The measure passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled state Legislature on Wednesday and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said he will sign it.
When asked if the Department of Health could provide further breakdowns on a regular basis, similar to Montgomery County, department spokesman Nate Wardle said “there are no plans to do that.”
Cumberland County saw two new positive cases to bring its total to 15.
Michael Rubin, the founder and executive chairman of Fanatics, was watching TV last week when he was struck by the idea to turn the 360,000-square foot facility in Easton, Pennsylvania, into a factory for the COVID-19 virus fight.
Locally in Troop H, which covers Cumberland County and much of the Midstate, there were no new warnings issued to businesses that were deemed noncompliant with Gov. Tom Wolf's order to shut down amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Midstate has about 4% of the total cases in the state with 91 total positives.
"As long as you wash your hands thoroughly and regularly after opening it and don't touch your nose and mouth ... that mail itself, that package, poses very little risk."
The DOH reports 533 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in the state, bringing the statewide total to 2,751 in 56 counties.
Cumberland County saw two more cases reported, bringing its total to 38, but Dauphin County saw one of its largest rises yet with 14 more cases in a single day.
"Testing in patients would typically require at least a year and probably longer," said co-author Dr. Louis Falo, professor and chair of dermatology at Pitt's School of Medicine and UPMC.
The group has constructed more than 350 masks as of Thursday. The goal is to provide a total of 2,000 masks for area organizations in need of personal protective equipment.
The retailer said it closed the center in Bethlehem on Wednesday night so it can be cleaned and sanitized.
The DOH daily update for state and county numbers Friday shows Cumberland County with four more positive test results, raising the county total to 45.
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The DOH also reported 34 new deaths among positive cases in the state, bringing the statewide total to 136. All of those deaths have been in adult patients.
The PFBC said anglers and boaters must abide by social distancing guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order regarding COVID-19.
Carlisle Borough Council's April meeting will be held via Zoom video conferencing and be broadcast via YouTube as the borough hall remains closed to comply with stay-at-home orders.
Short-term rental property owners in Pennsylvania continue to advertise lodging in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf’s coronavirus shutdown order, adm…
After collecting information from hospitals and health systems across the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Health unveiled a Hospital Preparedness Dashboard online Wednesday that provides county-level information about the status of equipment at area facilities.
Cumberland County reports 8 new cases, bringing total number to 96.
DOH confirms 1,676 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in the state Saturday with 78 new deaths among positive cases.
Pennsylvania saw its deadliest day in the coronavirus pandemic as 80 additional residents died from COVID-19, according to the Department of H…
As the number of Pennsylvanians with COVID-19 rose to more than 30,792, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Saturday that increased tes…
The finding, which comes after positive tests in seven tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo, adds to a small number of confirmed cases of the virus in animals worldwide.
The governor said his administration will utilize a three-phase plan to determine when counties and/or regions are ready to begin easing some restrictions.
Of that total, Cumberland County has 86 residents and 17 employees in long-term care facilities who have tested positive.
Officials said the county will continue healthcare benefits for furloughed employees until at least July 31.
One metric that the state Department of Health plans to use looks at new, confirmed cases of COVID-19. If there is a total of less than 50 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents over 14 days, the department could consider the region for reopening.
The south-central region reported 128 new positive cases in Friday's numbers and now has 2,257 positive cases and 17,870 negative cases, meaning 11% of the total test results in the region to date have been positive.
The southcentral region (1,727,120 people), in which Cumberland County is grouped with most of the Midstate counties, showed 109 new, positive cases in Sunday's report, bringing the region's total for the past 14 days to 1,391 positive cases, or 80.54 cases per 100,000 people in the region.
Continuing a streak of double-digit increases of COVID-19 cases in Cumberland County, the state Department of Health reported Monday that the …
The county now sits at 296 positive cases with 1,339 negative test results, meaning 18% of total test results to date in the county have turned up positive. Nearly 18% (14 out of 78) of Monday’s new test results reported for the county were positive.
Wolf to announce Friday which parts of state can begin reopening process.
Nearly 44% (28 out of 64) of Wednesday's new test results reported for the county were positive.
Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine on Wednesday confirmed that the state Department of Health has finalized its contact tracing plan, which will be released by the end of the week.
But while only half of the county's current 343 COVID-19 cases involve the general population, Cumberland County also has fewer tests overall compared to other counties of its size in the region.
Though Cumberland County's number of coronavirus-affected long-term care facilities had remained at three, two more facilities have been added…
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With the state Department of Health reporting the smallest increase of new COVID-19 cases yet, the southcentral region is still seeing more ca…
County officials said they view the challenge at nursing homes as separate from how the virus is impacting the greater community.
Seven new COVID-19 cases and seven new deaths, all in long-term care facilities, were reported Tuesday by the state Department of Health.
Her efforts and immediate self-isolation after she developed a cough may have helped prevent her husband from getting the disease, but Mercer eventually found herself getting screened by her friends instead of working alongside them.
In the latest report from state Department of Health, Cumberland County's COVID-19 numbers again rose slightly, largely because of more cases …
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In addition to the newly calculated deaths, Cumberland County also saw an increase of 17 new COVID-19 cases, and for the first time in a while, those cases may not all be directly linked to nursing facilities.
Last week, the Department of Health released a contact tracing plan that addresses technology, partnerships with existing health care communities, a focus on vulnerable populations and an infrastructure of contact tracers.
Cumberland County will remain in the red phase for now where the stay-at-home order has been extended until June 4.
Moving from red to yellow under the plan to reopen Pennsylvania means fewer restrictions for residents and businesses, but still leaves significant portions of the community closed.
Wolf tapped 13 counties in the region, including the Pittsburgh area, to see relief from his tightest pandemic restrictions starting Friday, joining 24 other counties across northern Pennsylvania that began emerging last week.
There were seven new cases of COVID-19 reported in Cumberland County, the most likely coming from long-term care facilities, as the state Depa…
A switch in reporting systems has drastically changed some of the data on deaths associated with COVID-19.
Even though the state Department of Health on Tuesday reported only 610 new cases statewide, Cumberland County saw the number of its positive …
Cumberland County added five new cases of COVID-19 in data reported Wednesday by the Department of Health. The county also had one additional death.
In the past 14 days, 162 new cases have been reported in the county. That puts the county's per capita rate for the 14-day period at 63.94 cases per 100,000 people in the county, the fourth straight day that rate has increased.
The CDC told The Associated Press on Friday that the problem started several weeks ago when the agency began collecting data from states using an electronic reporting system that had been developed for other diseases.
The state Department of Health reported its lowest increases yet in COVID-19, though the most recent numbers are calculated from Sunday's data…
Though the latest low numbers of COVID-19 cases are likely due to the low level of reporting on the Memorial Day holiday, health officials are…
While Pennsylvania has gone back to seeing more than 100 new deaths after a slow two days of reporting over the Memorial Day holiday, Cumberla…
Though Cumberland County is not yet slated to move from the yellow phase to the green phase, new guidelines provided Wednesday afternoon by th…
In the past 14 days, 141 new cases have been reported in Cumberland County. That puts the county's per capita rate for the 14-day period at 55.65 cases per 100,000 people in the county, tied for the lowest rate since May 15.
Despite only 511 new positive COVID-19 cases reported across the state, Dauphin County's numbers continue to climb while Cumberland County is …
After more than 15 new cases were reported Saturday in Cumberland County, there were only three new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday from the…
Though Monday's reports from the state Department of Health are historically lower due to the data coming from Sunday results, Cumberland Coun…
The state Department of Health on Tuesday reported that Cumberland County saw eight new cases of COVID-19 and one new death, a decrease of new…
Cumberland County is back to single-digit increases of new COVID-19 cases while Dauphin County continues to climb by double digits.
Cumberland County only saw seven new positive cases of COVID-19 in the state Department of Health’s latest report, though Dauphin County conti…
Over two days of reporting over the weekend, Cumberland County saw 18 new COVID-19 positives, while York County saw a large spike in new cases.
While most counties in the southcentral region are reporting a small number of new cases — including Cumberland County — York County saw anoth…
In the latest report from the state Department of Health, Cumberland County saw nine new cases of COVID-19 as positive tests continued to rise…
The southcentral region saw fewer new COVID-19 cases in the latest report from the state Department of Health compared to the last few days.
A day after the region saw a drop in the number of new cases, Cumberland County's COVID-19 case totals shot up by 16 in Thursday's report from…
Cumberland County added five new cases of COVID-19 to its overall case count in state Department of Health data released Friday. No additional…
Though the number of new cases of COVID-19 remain above 500 statewide, Sunday's report from the state Department of Health had only a few of t…
The department reported Tuesday that while Cumberland County only saw five new cases, Dauphin County saw 74 new cases. That's the highest increase for Dauphin County in weeks.
Cumberland County saw 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Thursday's report from the state Department of Health, while Dauphin County is back with ano…
Five new cases of COVID-19 in Cumberland County were reported Friday by the state Department of Health. No additional deaths were reported in the county.
Saturday's report from the state Department of Health revealed 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Cumberland County.
There were nine new cases of COVID-19 reported on the Fourth of July holiday in Cumberland County, according to the latest numbers from the st…
There were few COVID-19 cases reported in Cumberland County and the rest of the southcentral region from the Fourth of July weekend.
The southcentral region may have seen a brief respite of newly reported COVID-19 cases, but the holiday is over, and with it, the drop in new …
A number of counties in the southcentral region saw a double-digit increase in their COVID-19 cases in Wednesday's report from the state Depar…
Cumberland County's tally grew by two new deaths to 66 deaths total, while Dauphin County saw five new deaths in Thursday's report.
Though the number of new cases are, on average, not high in Sunday reports from the state Department of Health, Cumberland County still saw 12…
Cumberland County and the rest of the southcentral region saw few new cases of COVID-19 in the state Department of Health's Monday report. All…
After what could have been a lag in reporting from private laboratories that have been doing most of the testing outside of hospital and state…
That's only the sixth time the county has seen a daily increase of 20 or more cases since March and the first time since May 21.
After two days straight in the double-digits for new cases, Cumberland County only saw three new cases in Thursday's report, though it also had two more deaths confirmed to be related to the coronavirus.
The department reported an additional 1,032 positive cases, bringing the statewide total to 99,478. Over one-third of those cases came from Allegheny County, which reported 240 cases, and Philadelphia County, which reported 163 cases.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania surpassed 100,000 Saturday as Cumberland County saw an additional 13 cases push its total case count to 1,008.
Eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Cumberland County as most counties in the region saw slight increases in Sunday's report from the…
Four counties in the southcentral region, including Cumberland County, saw an unusual spike in the number of new COVID-19 cases in Tuesday's r…
In the past 14 days, 146 new cases have been reported in Cumberland County, giving the county a per capita rate of 57.6 per 100,000 people for the 14-day period.
A pair of ZIP codes accounted for 38% of the new cases in the county Friday — 17013 (Carlisle area) had 47 new cases and 17055 (Upper Allen Township) had 48 new cases.
The number of hospitalizations in Cumberland County increased by 10 from Tuesday. There were 157 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wednesday's report. Of those, 28 are in the ICU and 20 are on ventilators.
The number of hospitalizations in Cumberland County decreased by two from Wednesday. There were 155 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Thursday's report.
Cumberland County showed an increase in percent positivity for the week of cases running Dec. 11-17 at 18.2%, and an increase in incidence rate per 100,000 people for the week at 488.4.
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The day after Thanksgiving, Birx traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households.
That marks the 21st straight day with a death related to COVID-19 in the county.
The Department of Health continues to review and refine the data to be sure it is reported properly. The team looking into the data numbers consists of about 150 people.
According to the latest update on the state's COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, Cumberland County featured a percent positivity of 17.4% last week compared to 17.7% the previous week.
There were 147 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Tuesday's report (down one from Monday) with 28 in intensive care units (up one from Monday), and 43 on ventilators (up 19 from Monday).
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