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Coronavirus cases continue to mount at Westmoreland County Prison, with eight additional inmates testing positive for the virus Saturday, bringing the total number infected to 114, according to interim Warden George Lowther.
Lowther said two units at the Hempfield facility remain in lockdown in an attempt to limit the virus from spreading to other areas of the jail that currently houses 468 inmates.
“We believe we have it under control as well as can be expected, but as we’re all learning with this virus we don’t really know what to expect next,” he said.
Westmoreland County commissioners on Thursday awarded another 130 small businesses nearly $2 million to cover losses and expenses related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The money represents the second, and what commissioners said was the final, round of funding to small businesses from $31.5 million in federal relief funds the