WGAL News 8 coronavirus coverage

HARRISBURG, Pa. —

The Pennsylvania Department of Health says there have been 703,265 cases of coronavirus in the state. That is an increase of 10,178 from the previous day.

Deaths

The health department has added a total of 215 new deaths statewide, raising today’s total number of deaths from COVID-19 to 17,394.

Positivity rate

Statewide percent positivity for the week of December 25 – December 31 stood at 15.0%.

Hospitalizations

There are 5,491 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19, near double the peak in the spring. Of that number, 1,113 patients are in the intensive care unit with COVID-19. Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients 65 or older. More data is available here.

Vaccinations

Pennsylvania hospitals began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 21.

Through Jan. 7:

• 199,618 doses of the vaccine have been administered.

A spreadsheet of facilities that have received vaccine can be found here.