Associated Press
HARRISBURG – Two Valley counties are back in the ‘moderate’ category for COVID spread, but one Valley county is now in the ‘low’ category. On its Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard Tuesday, state officials say Snyder and Montour counties are back in the ‘moderate’ category after being listed as ‘low’ last week.
The Department of Health says the case count over the 7 day period caused both counties to move from low to moderate this week. In addition to considering incidence rate and PCR percent positivity, the department reiterated it considers case count. If fewer than 10 new cases are reported in a county in the most recent 7-day reporting period, the county will automatically qualify as exhibiting a low level of community transmission. Both Montour and Snyder had fewer than 10 cases for the week ending 5/28 qualifying them as low transmission. For the week ending 6/4, both counties had 10 or more cases and based on their incidence and PCR positivity, they qualify as moderate.
Meanwhile, Union County is now listed in the ‘low’ category, and Northumberland County remains ‘moderate.’
Statewide, the percent positivity rate has dropped again from 3.8% to 2.9%. There are now 13 counties in the ‘low’ category, 55 ‘moderate,’ and McKean County is the lone county in the ‘substantial’ category.
