{"id":26753,"date":"2020-04-04T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=26753"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:00:49","slug":"covid-19-update-april-4-state-passes-10k-cases-34-news-deaths-reported-chesco-number-continue-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=26753","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Update, April 4: State passes 10K cases, 34 news deaths reported; Chesco number continue to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>By Mike McGann<\/strong>, <em>Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coronavirusoutbreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11454\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coronavirusoutbreak-350x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>The rates of both infections and fatalities continues to grow statewide, as Pennsylvania saw 1,597 new cases and 34 additional deaths yesterday from the COVID-19 virus. There are now more than 10,000 cases \u2014 10,017 \u2014 in 64 of the state\u2019s 67 counties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Chester County, the rates of infection rose \u2014 according to the state Department of Health (numbers from the Chester County Health Department were not available at publication time) \u2014 with cases numbering 250, up from 223 the day before.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe continued rise in cases combined with our increasing deaths from COVID-19 reflects the seriousness of this situation,\u201d Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said. \u201cWe need everyone to listen to the orders in place and to stay calm, stay home and stay safe. We know that these prolonged mitigation effects have been difficult for everyone, but it is essential that everyone follows these orders and does not go out unless they absolutely must.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The State Department of Health reports a total of 60,013 negative tests to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The State Police stepped up enforcement, issuing a total of 27 warnings to businesses open in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf\u2019s order that all non \u201clife-sustaining\u201d businesses close, No Summons have been issued to date.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times The rates of both infections and fatalities continues to grow statewide, as Pennsylvania saw 1,597 new cases and 34 additional deaths yesterday from the COVID-19 virus. There are now more than 10,000 cases \u2014 10,017 \u2014 in 64 of the state\u2019s 67 counties. In Chester County, the rates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,9585,9635,3912,1677],"class_list":["post-26753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-covid-19","tag-department-of-health","tag-featured","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26754,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions\/26754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}