Montgomery County COVID-19 Thursday Afternoon Update – April 2nd

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Based on the information found on state and county’s COVID-19 website and the Commissioner’s Wednesday afternoon 3:00 PM press conference, here is quick snapshot of the spread of coronavirus across Montgomery County and the Delaware Valley.

There were 31 new positive Montgomery County COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday.

The positive cases are from 19 municipalities, two of which, Rockledge and Upper Salford are reporting their first cases.

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

  • Age Range: 10 to 94 years-old
  • Age Brackets: (2) 10 – 19, (7) 20 – 29, (4) 30 – 39, (5) 40 – 49, (6) 50 – 59, (2) 60 – 69, (0) 70 – 79, (4) 80 – 89, (1) 90 – 94
  • Gender: 15 females, 16 males
  • Hospitalized: (7) Home, (16) Unknown, (8) Yes

The 31 new positive cases brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 595 countywide.

Of those 595 confirmed cases countywide, 300 are male, 286 are female.

The average age of individuals with COVID-19 is 48.7 years old with the youngest patient being a 2-month-old baby and a 95 year-old Abington man, the oldest.

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

 

.Source: Montgomery County COVID-19 Site – Last Update: 3.31.2020

Municipality # of Total Cases
Abington 45
Ambler 10
Cheltenham 41
Collegeville 4
Conshohocken 6
Douglass 3
East Norriton 8
Franconia 4
Hatfield Twp. 10
Hatboro Twp. 1
Horsham 12
Jenkintown 5
Lansdale 5
Limerick 8
Lower Gwynedd 10
Lower Merion 110
Lower Moreland 18
Lower Pottsgrove 4
Lower Providence 29
Lower Salford 7
Marlborough 2
Montgomery 11
Narberth 2
New Hanover 5
North Wales 1
Norristown 7
Perkiomen 8
Plymouth Township 13
Pottstown 9
Rockledge 1
Royersford 1
Salford 1
Schwenksville 2
Skippack 10
Souderton 6
Springfield 29
Telford 3
Towamincin 5
Trappe 1
Upper Dublin 20
Upper Frederick 3
Upper Gwynedd 6
Upper Hanover 3
Upper Merion 19
Upper Moreland 12
Upper Pottsgrove 1
Upper Providence 13
Upper Salford 1
West Norriton 9
West Pottsgrove 1
Whitemarsh 24
Whitpain 13
Worcester 13
Total 595

Two new coronavirus related death, an 86 year-old woman and a 82 year-old man, were reported in Montgomery County Wednesday, moving the County’s COVID-19 death toll to 10, 13.5-percent of the 74 deaths attributed to the coronavirus statewide.

 

The County’s total number of reported cases represent 8.4-percent of the 7,016 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases across Pennsylvania.

Since testing began on March 20th, Montgomery County has tested 2,636 individuals for COVID-19 at its Drive-through Testing Center in Upper Dublin. Of those tested, results from only 55-percent of the tests have been returned to the county. 13-percent of returned tests came back as positive.

By comparison, as of noon Thursday, with the exception of Philadelphia County with 1,852 cases, neighboring and surrounding counties all have fewer positive COVID-19 cases than does Montgomery County:

County # of Positive Cases (Deaths)
Berks County 168 (1)
Bucks County 370 (6)
Delaware County 470 (8)
Lehigh County 479 (5)
Philadelphia County 1,852 (13)
Lancaster County 203 (4)
Chester County 210 (2)

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health

 

 

 

 

 

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

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