8 New Coronavirus Deaths Reported In Bucks Co. Wednesday

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Eight more deaths from the new coronavirus were reported in Bucks County on Wednesday, bringing the county total to 118.

Most of those deaths were among residents of nursing homes, according to health officials.

The Bucks County Health Department reported that the people dying from the virus were four women, ages 93, 91, 83 and 71, and four men, ages 90, 89, 80 and 59.

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The county reported 131 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing its total to 2,197. Of those, 184 patients were hospitalized, 24 of them in critical condition and on ventilators.

A total of 493 people have recovered from the virus in Bucks County and been released from isolation.

Long-term care facilities like nursing homes have been particularly hard-hit by the virus in Bucks County. In Pennsylvania, where 58 new coronavirus deaths were reported on Wednesday, more than half of the fatalities have been at nursing homes or personal care facilities, officials say.

On Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced more details about how Pennsylvania may gradually re-open from the coronavirus shutdown.

Portions of sparsely populated north-central and northwest Pennsylvania are projected to be the first to start gradually shedding Wolf’s restrictions, with many retail stores permitted to reopen starting May 8.

Wolf said that a region, or a county, will need to average fewer than 50 new positive cases of the virus per 100,000 residents for 14 days to qualify for the first reopening steps.

Statistics, charts and other coronavirus-related information can be found on the county's coronavirus data portal.

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