Covid numbers tallied for Murrysville-Delmont-Export area
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The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 579 people in the Murrysville area have had confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in March.
Of those, are 127 confirmed cases reported in the past seven days.
The health department on Monday released the figures for the three ZIP codes that comprise the region.
The largest number of cases, 284, are from residents in the 15668 area, which is strictly Murrysville. That represents an additional 45 cases since Nov. 30.
In the 15632 area, which encompasses Export, much of eastern Murrysville and a slice of Washington Township, there were 196 confirmed cases — up an additional 47.
And there have been 99 confirmed cases in the 15626 area, which includes Delmont along with small slivers of Murrysville and Salem, which is up 35 from last week.
Probable cases across the three ZIP codes number 128 since March.
There have been 5,088 negative test results in those areas, figures show. Of the full number of tests administered, 5,667, the region has seen just over 10% come back positive. That percentage has climbed steadily since numbers began rising nationwide in the fall.
Across its five buildings, the Franklin Regional School District has seen seven cases of covid-19 since the school year began, none of which caused schools to close.
The school board voted 6-3 in late November to send all students home for remote instruction last week, out of concern for potential community covid-19 spread after families returned from the Thanksgiving holiday.
The district has also installed a covid-19 tracking feature on its website, FRSDk12.org under the “Covid-19 Information” tab. On Tuesday, it listed zero active cases in its schools as of noon.
According to the state’s tracking website, in Westmoreland County there have been 9,296 confirmed cases, 2,371 probable cases, 66,437 negative tests and 250 deaths since the outbreak began.
Westmoreland has added more than 2,175 cases since the start of December. For purposes of comparison, for the first six months of the pandemic, March through August, the county registered 1,815 cases total.
Despite a small spike in late June and early July, the county’s daily confirmed case counts had remained relatively low until a sharp uptick beginning in late September. That number went back and forth, but has skyrocketed far beyond the pandemic’s early stages, reaching an all-time single day high of 440 positive cases reported on Dec. 4, just over a week after a Thanksgiving holiday that saw large number of Americans ignoring medical advice to remain at home and not gather in groups.