Pa. Administers More Than Eight-Million Vaccination Doses

April 26, 2021 4:21 am

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday that more than eight-million vaccination doses have been administered, with more than three-point-two-million residents fully vaccinated. According to the CDC, as of Monday morning, Pennsylvania has administered first doses of vaccine to more than forty-seven-percent of its eligible population, and the state ranks 10th among all 50 states for first doses administered by percentage of population. Pennsylvania ranks 5th among all 50 states for total doses administered, according to a news release.  COVID cases are continuing to climb – but state health officials say they are still below what they were at the height of the spring peak on May 3, 2020.  Statewide percent positivity for the week of April 16 – April 22 decreased to 8.6 percent.  Statewide, there were more than five-thousand new COVID cases reported over a forty-eight-hour period, and just five new deaths.  In Washington County, there were fifty new cases and no new deaths.  Allegheny County reported 311 new cases and one new death and in Greene County, there was one new death and four new coronavirus infections.