Montgomery County COVID-19 Afternoon Update – March 26th

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Based on the information found on the County’s COVID-19 website as well as the commissioner’s press conference Wednesday afternoon, here is quick snapshot of the spread of coronavirus across Montgomery County.

There were 60 new positive Montgomery County COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday. These positive individuals are from 27 municipalities, four of which including Ambler, Lansdale, Schwenksville and Trappe, are in municipalities reporting their first cases.

A breakdown of Monday’s reported new positive cases follows:

  • Age Range: 5 to 81
  • Age Brackets: (1) 0-9, (1) 10 – 19, (9) 20 – 29, (9) 30 – 39, (11) 40 – 49, (13) 50 – 59, (10) 60 – 69, (3) 70 – 79, (3) 80 – 89
  • Gender: 25 females, 35 males
  • Hospitalized: (2) Yes, (8) No, (50) Unknown

The 60 new positive cases brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 219 countywide.

Of those 219 confirmed cases countywide, 119 are male, 100 are female.

The average age of individuals with COVID-19 is 48.5 years old with the youngest patient being a 1 year-old Royersford boy and a 95 year-old Cheltenham man, the oldest patient.

38 of the County’s 62 municipalities are home to at least one individual with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

Click here for an interactive version of the map.
Municipality # of Total Cases
Abington 17
Ambler 1
Cheltenham 18
Collegeville 3
Conshohocken 3
Douglass 1
East Norriton 4
Horsham 1
Lansdale 1
Limerick 4
Lower Gwynedd 4
Lower Merion 48
Lower Moreland 7
Lower Pottsgrove 2
Lower Providence 21
Lower Salford 2
Montgomery 3
Narberth 1
New Hanover 2
Perkiomen 4
Plymouth Township 6
Pottstown 4
Royersford 1
Schwanksville 1
Skippack 3
Springfield 9
Towamincin 3
Trappe 1
Upper Dublin 7
Upper Frederick 2
Upper Gwynedd 2
Upper Merion 9
Upper Moreland 2
Upper Providence 4
West Norriton 1
Whitemarsh 5
Whitpain 4
Worcester 8
Total 219

The death of an 84 year-old Abington man from the coronavirus brings the number of deaths in the county to two, 18-percent of the deaths attributed to the coronavirus statewide.

The County’s total number of reported cases represent 13-percent of the 1,687 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases across Pennsylvania.

By comparison, as of noon Wednesday, with the exception of Philadelphia County, neighboring and surrounding counties all have fewer positive COVID-19 cases than does Montgomery County:

County # of Positive Cases
Berks County 36 (0)
Bucks County 107 (0)
Delaware County 156 (1)
Lehigh County 38 (1)
Philadelphia County 402 (1)
Lancaster County 21 (0)
Chester County 84 (0)

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health

 

 

 

 

 

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