Eight older Bucks Counties with COVID-19 died, the county announced on Wednesday night.
Those who died – five women ages 94, 94, 89, 79, and 68 and three men ages 79, 74, and 66 – bring the county-wide total to 60 since the pandemic began.
Seven out of eight of those who died were residents of longterm care facilities and had prior health conditions, county officials said.
Bucks County Health Department Director Dr. David Damsker said facilities where residents live in close-quarters continued to be a concern for officials. As of Tuesday, more than 30 such facilities across the county had at least one confirmed COVID-19 case.
“While the overall numbers of new cases each day are starting to go down, we are going to continue to see deaths going up in congregate care facilities,” Damsker said.
Roughly half the COVID-19 patients in Bucks County who died were in longterm care facilities, Damsker said.
The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Bucks County grew by 53 on Wednesday to 1,450.
As of Wednesday night, a total of 116 Bucks County COVID-19 patients were hospitalized and 24 of them in critical condition on ventilators. Just over 260 were confirmed to have recovered.
