Montgomery County COVID-19 Afternoon Update – March 19th
Based on the information found on Montgomery County’s COVID-19 dashboard as well as the commissioner’s afternoon press conference, here is quick snapshot of the spread of coronavirus across the County.
There were eight new cases reported on Wednesday, 3 of which, including a 1 year-old child, are hospitalized. The eight new cases brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 42 countywide.
Of the County’s 42 confirmed cases, 20 are male, 22 are female.
The County’s total number of reported cases represent 23-percent of the 185 confirmed COVID-19 cases statewide.
By comparison, as of noon Wednesday, the number of confirmed cases in neighboring counties is significantly lower:
County | # of Cases | # of New Cases |
Berks County | 1 | 0 |
Bucks County | 12 | 3 |
Chester County | 10 | 4 |
Delaware County | 14 | 0 |
Lehigh County | 1 | 0 |
Philadelphia County | 33 | 16 |
Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health
The County’s 42 cases are spread across all ages with the youngest patient being a 1 year-old Royersford boy and the oldest patient, a 72 year-old Upper Providence woman.
Countywide, the average age of residents with Coronavirus is just under 44 years-old.
With the exception of a single case in Lower Moreland in the County’s southeast corner, incidents of COVID-19 are predominantly found in the central and western sections of Montgomery County, with the majority of cases found along the Main Line and the 422 Corridor:
Municipality | # of Total Cases | # of New Cases |
Lower Merion | 8 | 2 |
Lower Providence | 7 | 1 |
Skippack | 3 | 0 |
Collegeville | 2 | 0 |
Lower Gwynedd | 2 | 0 |
Perkiomen | 3 | 1 |
Upper Merion | 2 | 0 |
Worcester | 2 | 0 |
Cheltenham | 1 | 0 |
Conshohocken | 1 | 0 |
Douglass | 1 | 0 |
East Norriton | 1 | 0 |
Limerick | 1 | 0 |
Lower Moreland | 1 | 0 |
Lower Salford | 1 | 0 |
New Hanover | 1 | 0 |
Upper Providence | 1 | 0 |
Lower Pottsgrove | 1 | 1 |
Royersford | 1 | 1 |
Springfield | 1 | 1 |
Montgomery | 1 | 1 |
42 | 8 |
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