Associated Press
HARRISBURG – It’s now been 11 days in a row with at least 50 new COVID cases in the Valley, and two more deaths have been reported.
In Friday’s update, the state health department says there was a new death reported in Northumberland County (the fourth day in a row there has been a COVID death in the county). The county now with 389 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Snyder County also has a new death with 93 total deaths. Montour County remains with 68 deaths and Union County has had 95 deaths total. There were 37 new deaths reported statewide, for a total of 29,437 since the start of the pandemic.
The department also says there were 103 new Valley cases of COVID-19, including 50 in Northumberland County, (11,468 total), 22 in Union County, (6,853 total cases since the start of the pandemic), 21 in Snyder (4,323 total), and 10 in Montour (2,274 total).
Also statewide, 5,352 new COVID-19 cases have also been reported in Friday’s update, bringing the total number of people who have contracted the disease to 1,435,292 since the pandemic began. The department says 90%, have fully recovered.
The state says there are now 2,816 people hospitalized with COVID-19 – that’s 21 more people in the hospital than listed Thursday. They say 692 of the people are in an ICU and 384 are on ventilators.
Locally, Geisinger Danville is treating a total of 70 COVID-19 patients. There are 24 of those patients in an ICU and 14 are on ventilators. Geisinger Shamokin is treating nine total COVID patients. The hospital says most of the patients are unvaccinated.
In other local hospitalizations, Evangelical is now treating 30 people hospitalized, 23 are unvaccinated, five are in ICU – all are unvaccinated – and there are no patients on ventilators.
In statewide vaccine data, more than 12.7 million total vaccine doses have been administered statewide since the pandemic began, with 6.2 million fully vaccinated – 68.8% of those 18 and older are fully vaccinated. 121,741 additional doses have been administered statewide since August 13 for the immunocompromised.
Local vaccine data showed 527 doses received by residents of The Valley since Wednesday. Northumberland County residents received 224 new doses, for a total of 87, 938 having received at least one shot (44,797 county residents are fully vaccinated, 42,017 partially, 1,124 additional doses for immunocompromised since August 13).
Snyder County residents received 73 more doses, for a total of 29,694 (14,803 residents are now fully vaccinated, 14,636 partially, 255 additional doses for immunocompromised since August 13). Union County residents received 149 more doses for a total of 37,710 (18,872 fully vaccinated, 18,379 partially, 459 additional doses for immunocompromised since August 13) and Montour residents received 81 more doses (24,631 total; 12,017 fully vaccinated residents, 12,115 partially, 499 additional doses for immunocompromised since August 13).
At Valley universities, Bucknell now has 21 active cases on campus (58 total since the semester began), 16 of those positive cases are among students. They note that 94.4% of the students and faculty are fully vaccinated.
Susquehanna has four active student cases and one active faculty case (17 total since the start of the semester) and the campus vaccination rate is 95.4%.
Bloomsburg reported six new campus cases Wednesday – there have been 200 since the start of the fall semester.
