Coronavirus Update: 83 New Cases, 3 More Deaths Reported for Delaware County

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There were 83 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Delaware County as of Monday, May 4, bringing the total number of cases to 4,256.

Three additional residents have died from complications of COVID-19, raising the county’s death toll to 258, according to data from the Chester County Health Department.

Of that number, 193 occurred in a nursing home or personal care facility in the county.

COVID-19 deaths have been reported in 30 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:

  • Marple 42
  • Middletown 40
  • Nether Providence 28
  • Haverford 25
  • Yeadon 24
  • Darby Borough 14
  • Upper Darby 12
  • Newtown 8
  • Media 6
  • Location Pending investigation, no municipality assigned 5
  • Springfield 5
  • Concord 5
  • Lansdowne 5
  • Ridley 5
  • Radnor 4
  • City of Chester 4
  • Upper Chichester 3
  • Upper Providence 3
  • Norwood 3
  • Sharon Hill 2
  • Thornbury 2
  • Clifton Heights 2
  • Brookhaven 2
  • Bethel 2
  • Darby Township 1
  • Collingdale 1
  • Ridley Park 1
  • Aston 1
  • Aldan 1
  • East Lansdowne 1
  • Folcroft 1

Delaware County’s best two days for lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since the beginning of April were April 2 and April 26, when 72 new cases were reported for each day.

Daily caseloads must decline to 20 or less new cases per day for 14 days in Delaware County to meet state restriction easement requirements.

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

There are 213 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 263 cases, affecting 2.29 percent of its 11,471 population.

Upper Darby has the most reported cases, at 712, affecting .86 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 712
  • Yeadon 263
  • Middletown Township 243
  • Haverford Township 241
  • City of Chester 219
  • Marple 217
  • Darby Borough 195
  • Nether Providence 186
  • Ridley Township 124
  • Springfield 104
  • Newtown 101
  • Lansdowne 101
  • Radnor 98
  • Concord 99
  • Media 89
  • Aston 78
  • Upper Chichester 77
  • Collingdale 80
  • Sharon Hill 65
  • Upper Providence 61
  • Folcroft 58
  • Prospect Park 54
  • Darby Township 54
  • Aldan 47
  • Chester Township 45
  • Colwyn 42
  • Clifton Heights 41
  • Ridley Park 33
  • Glenolden 33
  • Norwood 31
  • East Lansdowne 31
  • Brookhaven 31
  • Parkside 22
  • Swarthmore 21
  • Thornbury 20
  • Tinicum 19
  • Bethel 15
  • Trainer 11
  • Millbourne 11
  • Marcus Hook 11
  • Chester Heights 10
  • Upland 9
  • Eddystone 9
  • Morton 9
  • Edgmont 9
  • Chadds Ford 4
  • Rutledge 1

The county has had 9,998 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

New confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania reached a new milestone above 50,000. The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed as of midnight, Monday, May 4, that there are 825 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 50,092.

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

The department reported 14 new deaths, bringing the statewide total to 2,458 in Pennsylvania.

Of those,1,646 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 32,001.  The northeast has the second highest number of cases, at 10,373.

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

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