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Another COVID-19 death reported

33 new cases in county

Another person died Monday in the county from COVID-19 after a coronavirus patient died at Butler Memorial Hospital over the weekend.

The state Department of Health reported Monday's death as well as 33 new COVID-19 cases in the county on Tuesday, raising the totals to 427 and 11,952, respectively, since the beginning of the pandemic.

Butler Health System and the health department continue to urge vaccinations for everybody who is eligible.

Third doses of vaccine are available to people with compromised immunity, and booster shots for people who have had two doses will be offered beginning Sept. 20 at the health system's vaccine clinics at Butler Memorial and Clarion hospitals.

New deaths also were reported Monday in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Clarion, Mercer and Westmoreland counties.

Statewide, 22 new deaths and 2,795 new cases raise the totals to 28,098 and 1,272,350, respectively.

In nursing and personal care homes, there have been 73,111 cases among residents and 15,819 cases among employees since the beginning of the pandemic.

About 29,954 of the cases in the state have been among health care workers.

The health department also reported 96,428 people in the county have been fully vaccinated and 7,511 have been partially vaccinated among the population of 193,763.

Statewide, 5,892,115 people have been fully vaccinated and 6,146,617 people have been partially vaccinated among the state population of about 12.8 million.

Pennsylvania ranks fifth for the total number of doses administered among the states, and 65.1% of residents 18 and older are fully vaccinated, the health department said, citing information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The state recovery rate dropped this week to 94% after holding steady at 95% for the previous few weeks. The recovery rate was 97% in the spring.

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