Allegheny County Sees More Coronavirus Deaths, Dozens More Cases

PITTSBURGH, PA — There were two new coronavirus deaths reported in Allegheny County on Thursday, the county health department announced. The county death toll remains at 186.

Sixty-one new cases were reported, the highest number of the week by far. The previous high was 45 cases on two other days. The number of cases during the outbreak in the county now stands at 2,3821.

Three hundred and seventy-nine people people have been hospitalized in the county during
the outbreak. There was one new hospitalization on Thursday.

With 637 confirmed cases in Beaver County, 578 in Westmoreland County, 280 in Butler County and 184 in Washington County, that brings the total number of cases in the five-county
southwestern Pennsylvania region to 4,061. That's up from 3,971 on Thursday.

According to the state Department of Health, 321 people have died thus far in the five-county
region: One hundred and eighty-six in Allegheny County, 78 in Beaver County, 38 in Westmoreland County, 13 in Butler County and six in Washington County. The death toll is unchanged from Wednesday.