A Harleysville man is among four new presumptive-positive cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Montgomery County.
During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Montgomery County Commissioner Valerie Arkoosh announced that a 39-year-old man from Lower Salford Township was among the four new presumptive-positive cases, and added that had a history of extensive travel within the United States and is currently at his home being monitored.
Arkoosh said that contact tracing for the man was currently underway.
One of the other new presumptive-positive cases was a 72-year-old woman from Upper Providence Township. Arkoosh said the woman is currently hospitalized, and she was determined to be a case of community spread within the county after contact tracing was unable to determine where the victim acquired the virus.
Earlier on Tuesday, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said that as of 12:01 a.m., Pennsylvania had a total of 96 presumptive positive cases and 879 negative tests. At the center of those numbers is Montgomery County, with 32 presumptive-positive cases—not including the four that were announced later in the afternoon—which is more than triple any other county in the state.
Levine also confirmed that there were cases of community spread of the coronavirus within the state, but added that she had not seen any signs of sustained community spread, though she does expect to see that in the future.
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