5 New Coronavirus Cases In Bucks Co.

Update: County officials said two additional positive coronavirus tests came in Thursday afternoon. The county now has 14 cases, with five positive tests coming in Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. This story has been updated since it was first published Thursday morning.

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Bucks County now has 14 coronavirus cases, after five more positive tests came in Wednesday night, officials said. The news comes as the state reported its first COVID-19-related death on Wednesday. A man in Northampton County died from the virus.

The new cases confirmed Wednesday involve three adults, all with mild symptoms who are confined to their homes, according to information from county officials.

No further details on the two cases confirmed Thursday afternoon were immediately available. During an afternoon press conference, Bucks County Health Department Director David Damsker said the results had just come in and he had no further details on the two newest cases.

One of the cases confirmed Wednesday involves a person who lives out of state during the work week and shares a residence there with a person who has tested positive.

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The second patient confirmed Wednesday lives in Bucks County but works out of state. The third is a resident who has not left Bucks County anytime recently, Damsker said.

Damsker said the sources of infection for the latter two cases and an elderly person who remains hospitalized are still being investigated. In Bucks County, 11 of the 12 cases have involved mild symptoms with home confinement.

Montgomery County continues to have the bulk of the cases, with 42 as of Wednesday night.

Officials there announced that they are shifting to a “community spread model” and discontinuing most contact tracing efforts.

“We continue to have a very rapidly evolving situation here in Montgomery County,” Valerie Arkoosh, chair of the Montgomery County Commissioners, said at an afternoon briefing. "Under the community spread model, she said, “I will no longer be reporting contact tracing or presumed route of exposure for each individual, as I have done on all prior days."

Additional information on the Bucks County cases is expected later Thursday.

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