Montgomery County COVID-19 Morning Update – March 22nd

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Based on the information found on the County’s COVID-19  dashboard as well as press release issued by the commissioners Saturday afternoon, here is quick snapshot of the spread of coronavirus across Montgomery County.

There were nine new positive Montgomery County COVID-19 cases reported on Friday, four of which are hospitalized.

The nine new positive cases brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 77 countywide.

 

 

Of those 77 confirmed cases countywide, 41 are male, 36 are female.

The County’s total number of reported cases represent 21-percent of the 371 confirmed COVID-19 cases across Pennsylvania.

By comparison, as of noon Saturday, the number of confirmed cases in neighboring and surrounding counties continues to trend lower:

County # of Positive Cases # of New Cases
Berks County 7 6
Bucks County 24 12
Chester County 19 9
Delaware County 33 19
Lehigh County 13 12
Philadelphia County 69 36
Lancaster County 4 2

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health

The County’s 77 cases on the county’s dashboard are spread across all ages with the youngest patient being a 1 year-old Royersford boy and the oldest patient, a 95 year-old Cheltenham man.

Countywide, the average age of residents with Coronavirus is just under 48 years-old.

With the exception of seventeen cases spread across five municipalities in the County’s southeast corner, incidents of COVID-19 are predominantly found in the central and western sections of Montgomery County, with 39 cases found in municipalities along the Main Line and the 422 Corridor:

Municipality # of Total Cases # of New Cases
Lower Merion 17 5
Lower Providence 11 1
Skippack 3 0
Collegeville 2 0
Lower Gwynedd 2 0
Perkiomen 3 0
Upper Merion 3 0
Worcester 4 0
Cheltenham 6 1
Conshohocken 1 0
Douglass 1 0
East Norriton 2 0
Limerick 1 0
Lower Moreland 5 0
Lower Salford 1 0
New Hanover 2 0
Upper Providence 1 0
Lower Pottsgrove 1 0
Royersford 1 0
Springfield 2 0
Montgomery 1 0
Plymouth Township 1 0
Abington 3 0
Whitpain 1 0
Upper Dublin 1 1
West Norriton 1 1
77 7

Stay current on Montgomery County’s effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus here.

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