50 More Delaware County Residents Reported Dead From COVID-19, 376 Total

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Fifty more Delaware County deaths were reported from complications of COVID-19 on Thursday, May 7, raising the death toll to 376, according to data from the Chester County Health Department.

Of that total number, 288 occurred in a nursing home or personal care facility in the county.

COVID-19 deaths have been reported in 32 of the county’s 49 municipalities.

The following is a breakdown of COVID-19 fatalities listed by the Chester County Health Department by community in descending order of deaths reported:

  • Middletown 72
  • Marple 56
  • Yeadon 33
  • Haverford 31
  • Nether Providence 29
  • Darby Borough 19
  • Upper Darby 16
  • Media 15
  • Concord 13
  • No municipality assigned 10
  • Springfield 9
  • Newtown 9
  • Radnor 9
  • City of Chester 7
  • Lansdowne 7
  • Ridley 6
  • Upper Providence 5
  • East Lansdowne 4
  • Upper Chichester 3
  • Norwood 3
  • Sharon Hill 2
  • Thornbury 2
  • Clifton Heights 2
  • Brookhaven 2
  • Bethel 2
  • Darby Township 2
  • Collingdale 2
  • Prospect Park 1
  • Ridley Park 1
  • Aston 1
  • Aldan 1
  • Folcroft 1

There were 124 new positive tests of of COVID-19 in Delaware County as of Thursday, May 7, bringing the total number of cases to 4,554, according to data from the Chester County Health Department.

The virus is reported in 48 of the 49 municipalities, with no cases reported in Rose Valley.

There are 226 cases still under investigation, to which no municipality has been assigned.

Yeadon Borough continues to have the highest percentage of population being affected by the virus. It has 274 cases, affecting 2.39 percent of its 11,471 population.

Upper Darby has the most reported cases, at 747, affecting .9 percent of Upper Darby’s 82,993 population.

The following are the number of reported cases of COVID-19 in Delaware County, listed by municipality in descending order of caseload.

  • Upper Darby 747
  • Yeadon 274
  • Middletown Township 270
  • Haverford Township 252
  • City of Chester 246
  • Marple 232
  • Darby Borough 218
  • Nether Providence 195
  • Ridley Township 127
  • Concord 119
  • Media 116
  • Springfield 106
  • Lansdowne 106
  • Newtown 106
  • Radnor 100
  • Upper Chichester 88
  • Collingdale 85
  • Aston 80
  • Sharon Hill 72
  • Folcroft 61
  • Upper Providence 60
  • Prospect Park 60
  • Darby Township 57
  • Aldan 49
  • Chester Township 46
  • Colwyn 42
  • Clifton Heights 41
  • Glenolden 38
  • Brookhaven 36
  • Norwood 35
  • Ridley Park 33
  • East Lansdowne 33
  • Parkside 23
  • Swarthmore 21
  • Thornbury 20
  • Tinicum 20
  • Bethel 15
  • Marcus Hook 13
  • Trainer 12
  • Millbourne 11
  • Upland 11
  • Chester Heights 10
  • Eddystone 9
  • Morton 9
  • Edgmont 9
  • Chadds Ford 4
  • Rutledge 1

The county has had 10,806 people test negative for the virus.

Click here to access the latest data on Delaware County from the Chester County Health Department.

For information and resources concerning the coronavirus, visit the county website here.

Pennsylvania data

The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed as of midnight, Thursday, May 7, that there are 1,070 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 52,915.

All 67 counties in Pennsylvania have cases of COVID-19.

As a result of our continued work to reconcile data from various sources, the state is reporting an increase of 310 new deaths today, bringing the statewide total to 3,416 deaths in Pennsylvania.

Of those, 2,355 were in nursing homes and personal care facilities.

The southeast region of the state, which includes Delaware, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks and Chester Counties, has the highest number of COVID-19 positive confirmed cases in the state, at 33,808.  The northeast has the second highest number of cases, at 10,813376 Total.

For more information on state COVID-19 findings, click here.

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