HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed 4,579 new cases of COVID-19 since Saturday, bringing state totals to 661,871 known cases.
According to the DOH, 56 additional COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing the total to 16,295.
Sixty-nine(69) percent of Pennsylvania cases have been considered recovered from COVID-19.
Our central region has 388 new cases since Saturday. That brings our total to 45,543 known COVID-19 cases.
The county breakdown is below:
Total COVID-19 related deaths by county:
Bedford: 97 (+0)
Blair: 176 (+0)
Cambria: 254 (+0)
Cameron: 4 (+0)
Centre: 145 (+2)
Clearfield: 50 (+0)
Elk: 17 (+0)
Huntingdon: 87 (+0)
Jefferson: 46 (+1)
Somerset: 88 (+0)
NEW LOCAL DEATHS: 3
COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Pennsylvanian hospitals began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 21.
Through Jan. 1:
- 128,800 doses of the vaccine have been administered.
A spreadsheet of facilities that have received vaccine can be found here.
There are 3,297,312 individuals who have tested negative to date.
