Among the deaths, 1,704 (50%) were males 1,696 (50%) were female with 16 unreported by sex.īy race, 12,349 positives were Caucasian (23%), 5,909 were African-American (11%) and 631 (1%) were Asian, with 264 listed as “Other.” The vast majority, 33,762 (64% of all cases) remained unreported on the race of the patient. One percent (615) were unreported or neither. Of the total through Wednesday, 28,844 positive cases (55%) were female and 23,456 (44%) were male. The remainder were unclassified yet per age. Two percent of hospitalizations were under 29 years of age, five percent were 30-49, 10% were 50-64, 20% were 65-79 and 19% were 80+. It also includes 2,107 positive cases in workers in the food processing industry in 124 facilities statewide. And 10,506 cases – accounting for 19 percent of all cases- are in 514 of the state’s long-term care living facilities in 44 counties. There were 209,873 negative tests in PA as of midnight Wednesday night.Īt least 3,437 are health care workers – accounting for about six percent of all positive cases the total figure includes 1,489 workers in nursing homes. The state Health Department’s breakout of virus data for long-term care living facilities indicates 2,355 of the state’s deaths, more than 67 percent, were nursing home residents. This is the result of reconciliation of reports over the past several weeks. The death total rose to 3,416 total confirmed COVID-19 deaths, an increase of 310 from Wednesday’s report, all in adult patients. On Thursday, the Department of Health reported that Pennsylvania had found 1,070 new confirmed positive cases in the previous 24 hours, for a total of 52,915 confirmed cases. Levine have said there will be an announcement of additional counties moving to the yellow phase in the future, perhaps as soon as Friday, May 8. The guidance for businesses can be found here. The yellow phase order also addresses the limited reopening of businesses in the yellow phase, detailing those businesses previously deemed non-life-sustaining as being permitted to reopen if they follow the guidance for safety for staff, customers, and facility.
The yellow phase order applies to these 24 counties: Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union, Venango, and Warren. The yellow phase order provides guidance for those counties entering the yellow phase of reopening. The extended stay-at-home order remains the same as the original statewide stay-at-home order announced on April 1, which was set to expire at midnight and is now extended to June 4. Rachel Levine extended the orders for all counties in red, and signed new orders for the 24 counties moving to yellow at 12:01 a.m., May 8. With the April 1 statewide stay-at-home orders set to expire at midnight Thursday, May 7, Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Governor extends stay-at-home orders through June 4 Levine warns about ticks, tick-born illnesses.Four legislative committees assessing state responses for senior living facilities.Governor extends stay-at-home orders 60 days.