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Three Elderly Women With COVID-19 Die On Sunday

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Tom Sofield
Pennsylvania microbiologist Kerry Pollard performs a manual extraction of the coronavirus inside the extraction lab at the Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories last month.
Credit: PA Internet News Service

Three elderly women with COVID-19 died on Sunday.

The new deaths bring the death toll in Bucks County to 17.

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Two of the women were in their 90s and the third was in her mid-80s, county officials said.

As the county COVID-19 case count rose to 634 with 55 new cases, 33 patients were in local hospitals and 12 in critical condition on ventilators.

Many of the new cases reported are coming from places were people live in close proximity, said Dr. David Damsker, the county health director.

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Several nursing homes in the county have reported COVID-19 cases. The county correctional facility also has three officers and one inmate with COVID-19.

As of Sunday night, 86 COVID-19 patients have recovered.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.