(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) HARRISBURG - The number of daily coronavirus infections in Pennsylvania reached a staggering new high on Friday as state health officials announced more than 11,700 new positive test results.
Pennsylvania noted that more than 1,000 of the 5,071 people currently in state hospitals with coronavirus are in intensive care.
Most of the patients who are gravely ill are over the age of 65, according to health officials.Pennsylvania's death toll grew by 169 on Friday, which pushed the overall number of virus-attributed fatalities in the state to 11,113.