Montgomery County COVID-19 Morning 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.

With the exception of the county’s northeast region, incidents of COVID-19 are spread across all of Montgomery County.

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 19-percent of the 1,127 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases across Pennsylvania.

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

County # of Positive Cases
Berks County 20
Bucks County 86
Delaware County 101
Lehigh County 38
Philadelphia County 257
Lancaster County 12
Chester County 54

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health

 

 

 

 

 

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