Butler Health System officials listed one COVID-19 death in its report Monday.

According to a BHS official, the person who died Monday was not a Butler County resident.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the county's death toll remains at 17.

The Department of Health records its COVID-19 deaths based on the permanent residence of the person who dies, not by the location or municipality within which that death occurs.

The report also showed a subtraction of one confirmed case from Butler County's total. The total as of Monday stands at 685, which represents the number of Butler County residents who have tested positive for the virus since the beginning of the pandemic.

Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Rachel Levine released an update based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard on Monday. The release said it would be the first of a planned routine to provide an update every Monday.

Monday's update touched on community transmission levels and their effect on schools. Butler County remained in the moderate-level of the community transmission metric because its two-week new incidence rate fell between 11 and 100 new confirmed cases per 100,000 residents.

For the moderate level, the Pennsylvania Department of Education recommends either a hybrid approach to school or a full distance learning model.

The report also unveiled figures gathered by contact tracers about the types of businesses visited by infected residents.

According to the report, 45 percent of the 5,649 residents who tested positive between Aug. 9 and Aug. 15 answered contact tracers' questions about whether they went to businesses in the 14 days before their symptoms and which types of businesses they were.

Of those who answered, 320 people said they had visited a business during that time with 159 visiting restaurants, 75 visiting a business designated “other,” and 55 visiting a bar. Salons, barbershops, gyms and fitness centers were also listed.

Parallel to Monday's update, Levine issued a news release again stressing the importance of public participation during case investigations and contact tracing.

Contact tracing is initiated when a person's COVID-19 test returns positive. Within 24 hours, a contact tracer will call the infected person to trace to whom they may have passed the virus.

“We have a growing team of dedicated professionals equipped to do this work and truly make a difference, but we need our fellow Pennsylvanians to pick up the phone when they call,” Levine said of the contact tracers.