On Thursday night, Bucks County announced 11 deaths and 58 new COVID-19 cases within its borders.
The 11 residents who died ranged in age from 56 to 93. Nine of the 11 lived in long-term care facilities, and all had underlying health conditions, county officials said.
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Two of the deaths counted on Thursday were from early April, but the data was just reported to the county.
Of the 58 new COVID-19 cases, 23 were of residents in long-term care centers, three were staff, nine were from those residing with someone with the virus, six cases were of healthcare workers, three were infected at other essential jobs, and four were due to community spread. The county said 11 new cases were unable to be reached by contact tracers.
The county has seen a total of 4,190 COVID-19 cases confirmed through testing since the pandemic began.
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Bucks County Health Director Dr. David Damsker said in a media briefing the recent decline of new cases were due to social distancing efforts.
“If you look at the epidemiological curve, you see the numbers coming down, and we hope that what we are seeing is a trend,” Damsker said. “But because there are certain situations at long-term care facilities that are doing mass testing, we could see some numbers bumping up. But we do think the overall numbers of community-type spread cases – either household contacts or pure community spread – seem to be leveling off over the last week or two.”
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Officials reported 181 Bucks Countians in local hospitals with 24 of them on ventilators in critical condition.
So far, a total of 1,162 residents with confirmed COVID-19 cases have recovered.
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