Health & Fitness
No COVID Deaths For 3 Days In Bucks County
New coronvirus cases remained low as the county prepares to move to the freer green phase of Pennsylvania's virus quarantine plan.
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — No new deaths from the coronavirus were reported in Bucks County over the past three days, as the county nears the less-restrictive green phase of Pennsylvania's quarantine plan.
At the same time, the number of new cases of the virus remained low, with an average of about 14 positive tests per day from Saturday to Monday.
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On Friday, Bucks County is scheduled to move to the green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf's COVID-19 plan. Restaurants will be allowed to open their dining rooms and businesses like barber shops, gyms and nail salons will be allowed to open for the first time since March.
Safety restrictions at those businesses will be in place under the plan and Bucks County officials say they'll be enforcing them strictly to try to keep infection numbers low in the county.
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"We know there are current outbreaks happening in other states from these activities, as there were here in Bucks County before the restrictions were put in place," said Dr. David Damsker, director of the Bucks County Department of Health.
New outbreaks could get those businesses shut down again, Damsker said.
In Bucks, 10 new coronavirus infections were reported Saturday, along with three delayed reports of old cases. Daily reporting was not done on Sunday and, Monday, the two-day total was 31, along with two delayed reports.
Of the 46 cases, only four were attributed to pure community spread, which is when the patient does not have a good idea from whom they caught the virus.
On Monday, 77 Bucks County patients remained hospitalized with the coronavirus, with 12 of them in critical condition and on ventilators.
The county has had a total of 5,225 cases of the virus, with 502 deaths. Of those deaths, 430 were patients of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. In all, 3,090 patients in Bucks County have been confirmed to have recovered from the virus.
Statistics, charts and other coronavirus-related information for Bucks County can be found on the county's coronavirus data portal.
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