HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Health indicated Thursday that there were 853 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 153,397.
Centre is reporting an increase of 109 cases.
Elk County has had 71 cases, McKean County has had 57, Potter County has had 27 and Cameron County has had 8.
The number of tests administered within the last 7 days between Sept. 17 and 23 is 183,360 with 5,554 positive cases. There were 27,784 test results reported to the department through 10 p.m., Sept. 23. These results represent the total number of tests administered.
There are 8,079 total deaths attributed to COVID-19, an increase of 17 new deaths reported. There are 1,803,470 patients who have tested negative to date.