UpdatedWed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:13 am ET
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PITTSBURGH, PA The Allegheny County Health Department on Tuesday reported 94 confirmed and probable new coronavirus cases. There have been 61,769 cases since the outbreak began in March.
There were 15 new deaths, raising the total since the outbreak began to 1,104.
The 481 confirmed cases came from 1,761 new tests - a positivity rate of 27 percent. For comparison purposes, the latest positivity rate for tests across Pennsylvania is 15 percent, state officials said.
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There have been 3,599 hospitalizations during the outbreak.
With 22,026 cases in Westmoreland County, 10,937 in Butler County, 10,515 in Washington County and 9,621 in Beaver County, that brings the total number of cases to 1114,858 when Allegheny County numbers are included.
New York state’s new Covid-19 cases fell for a second day, after reaching a record since the start of the pandemic. California’s average daily deaths rose to a new high. U.S. lawmakers may have been exposed to the virus while they were held in a secure room during Wednesday’s attack on Congress, the Capitol’s attending physician said. North Dakota, once one of the nation’s worst-hit states, has gone two days without a death.