Murrysville-Export-Delmont covid figures tallied for the week of April 26, 2021
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The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 1,452 coronavirus cases in the Murrysville area since the pandemic started in March 2020.
Twenty-one new cases were reported in the past seven days.
The health department on Monday released figures for the three ZIP codes that comprise the region.
The largest number, 673, are from residents in the 15668 area, which is strictly Murrysville. That represents an additional 13 cases since April 20.
In the 15632 area, which encompasses Export, much of eastern Murrysville and a slice of Washington Township, there were 498 cases — up an additional seven.
And there have been 281 cases in the 15626 area, which includes Delmont along with small slivers of Murrysville and Salem, which is up two.
Probable cases across the three ZIP codes have numbered 742 since last March.
There have been 7,297 negative test results in those areas, figures show. Of the total tests administered — 9,491 — the region has seen just over 15% come back positive. That percentage has stayed consistent over roughly the past month.
The Franklin Regional School District has installed a covid-19 tracking feature on its website, FRSDk12.org, under the “Covid-19 Information” tab. As of April 12, there were five active cases, two each at the middle school and Sloan Elementary, and one at the district’s senior high school.
According to the state’s tracking website, in Westmoreland County there have been 21,920 confirmed cases, 10,332 probable cases, 95,075 negative tests and 736 deaths since the outbreak began.
Despite a small spike in late June and early July, the county’s daily confirmed positive test counts had remained relatively low until a sharp uptick beginning in late September. That number went back and forth, but skyrocketed far beyond the pandemic’s early stages, reaching an all-time single-day high of 747 reported on Dec. 10.
After a handful of single-day spikes in the days following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, countywide numbers had been slowly decreasing since early December. Daily case counts begun rising since early March, mirroring a nationwide trend in cases.