Murrysville-Export-Delmont covid figures tallied for the week of March 1, 2021
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The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 1,242 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Murrysville area since the pandemic started in March 2020.
Of those positive results, 18 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 of cases, 569, are from residents in the 15668 area, which is strictly Murrysville. That represents an additional 10 cases since Feb. 22.
In the 15632 area, which encompasses Export, much of eastern Murrysville and a slice of Washington Township, there were 427 confirmed cases — up an additional five.
And there have been 246 confirmed cases in the 15626 area, which includes Delmont along with small slivers of Murrysville and Salem, which is up three from last week.
Probable cases across the three ZIP codes have numbered 570 since last March.
There have been 6,667 negative test results in those areas, figures show. Of the total tests administered, 8,879, the region has seen just under 14% come back positive.
After a start to the school year which saw just seven positive cases up through the Thanksgiving holiday, the Franklin Regional School District has joined others in battling to ensure positive cases are identified and quarantined and school buildings can remain open as much as possible.
The district has installed a covid-19 tracking feature on its website, FRSDk12.org, under the “Covid-19 Information” tab. As of Feb. 12, there is three active cases, two at Heritage Elementary School and one at Franklin Regional Middle School.
According to the state’s tracking website, in Westmoreland County there have been 18,963 confirmed cases, 7,854 probable cases, 86,882 negative tests and 672 deaths since the outbreak began.
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 747 positive cases reported on Dec. 10.
After a handful of single-day spikes in the days following the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, countywide numbers have been slowly decreasing since early December. Daily positive case counts have recently dropped back to early October levels.