The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday announced 463 new cases of the coronavirus in the state, bringing the statewide total to 78,462 in about three months.
The department also listed 49 more deaths, bringing the total number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 6,211.
Most of the deaths were people in nursing and personal care homes.
About 74% percent of those who had the coronavirus have recovered, according to the Department of Health. Close to a half-million people have tested negative.
Cases have been dropping since peaking in early April. It’s been a month since the state has had more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day.
Pennsylvania is easing out of coronavirus-related shutdowns in a three-phase plan: red, yellow and green. All of the state is out of the red phase, meaning stay-at-home orders are lifted and many businesses are reopened, with limitations in place. Two-thirds of the state is in green, the rest in yellow.
In central Pennsylvania, Cumberland and York counties moved into the least-restrictive green phase this week. Eight including Dauphin County are moving on Friday from yellow (which bans things like barbershops and indoor dining) to green.
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