Delaware County’s COVID-19 new cases continued to tick up on Thursday, May 14, with 98 new cases reported, beating Wednesday’s new case number of 72.
That gives the county a total of 5,305 cases.
Sadly, 29 more Delaware County residents died from complications of COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 448, according to to data from the Chester County Health Department.
Of that total number, 354 occurred in a nursing home or personal care facility in the county.
COVID-19 deaths have now been reported in 33 of the county’s 49 municipalities after Trainer reported one death.
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 86
- Marple 69
- Yeadon 33
- Haverford 37
- Nether Providence 33
- Darby Borough 24
- Upper Darby 21
- Media 19
- Concord 15
- No municipality assigned 10
- Radnor 15
- Springfield 9
- Newtown 9
- City of Chester 12
- Lansdowne 7
- Upper Providence 7
- Ridley 6
- East Lansdowne 4
- Upper Chichester 4
- Norwood 3
- Prospect Park 3
- Brookhaven 3
- Sharon Hill 2
- Bethel 3
- Thornbury 2
- Clifton Heights 2
- Darby Township 2
- Collingdale 2
- Colwyn 1
- Ridley Park 1
- Aston 1
- Aldan 1
- Folcroft 1
- Trainer 1
The virus is reported in 48 of the 49 municipalities, with no cases reported in Rose Valley.
There are 223 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 350 cases, affecting 3.05 percent of its 11,471 population.
Upper Darby has the most reported cases, at 843, affecting 1.02 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 843
- Yeadon 350
- Middletown Township 344
- City of Chester 301
- Haverford Township 291
- Marple 270
- Darby Borough 253
- Nether Providence 207
- Ridley Township 154
- Radnor 152
- Concord 149
- Media 137
- Springfield 123
- Newtown 119
- Lansdowne 117
- Collingdale 98
- Upper Chichester 94
- Aston 90
- Folcroft 77
- Prospect Park 77
- Sharon Hill 76
- Upper Providence 67
- Darby Township 63
- Colwyn 57
- Aldan 52
- Chester Township 51
- Glenolden 49
- Clifton Heights 46
- Brookhaven 41
- East Lansdowne 36
- Ridley Park 36
- Norwood 35
- Parkside 25
- Tinicum 24
- Swarthmore 22
- Thornbury 21
- Bethel 18
- Millbourne 18
- Marcus Hook 16
- Trainer 13
- Upland 13
- Chester Heights 12
- Edgmont 11
- Eddystone 10
- Morton 9
- Chadds Ford 4
- Rutledge 1
The county has had 13,137 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, May 14, that there are 938 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 59,636.
The state is reporting 4,218 total deaths, an increase from the 3,943 total deaths last reported.
There were 44 new deaths reported overnight; the remaining 231 were reported as a result of a reconciliation of data over the past several weeks.
This means the department added 275 total deaths to the data.
Of the total deaths reported, 2,896 were in nursing homes and personal care facilities.
The southeast region of the state, which includes Delaware, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks and Chester Counties, had seen a decline in new cases earlier in May.
That has now reversed and new cases are rising again, according to an epicurve chart by region.
The southeast has the highest number of positive confirmed cases in the state, at 38,422. The next highest number of cases in the state is in the northeast, reporting 11,630 cases.
For more information on state COVID-19 findings, click here.
