PA Coronavirus Cases Top 11K As President Delivers Somber Warning

HARRISBURG, PA — Nearly 1,500 more Pennsylvanians tested positive for the new coronavirus, state health officials said Sunday. Additionally, 14 new deaths were reported, bringing the statewide death toll to 150.

Pennsylvania now has 11,510 positive cases of COVID-19, after 1,493 additional cases were announced Sunday.

Meanwhile, President Trump delivered a grim warning over the weekend, telling Americans to brace for "the toughest week" of the new coronavirus pandemic so far in this season of isolation and loss.

"There will be a lot of death," President Trump said Saturday at the White House, as officials warned that new hot spots were emerging in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Washington, D.C., as New York State continued to search for ventilators and other medical supplies.

The somber warning from the White House on the upcoming week was seconded by U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams Sunday morning, who told Fox News Sunday it would be the "hardest and saddest" for "most Americans' lives."

"I want Americans to understand that as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel," Adams said in his Sunday interview with Fox.

"The next two weeks are extraordinarily important," Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, said at the news conference. "This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe, and that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing their hands."

The single-day death toll from the new coronavirus in the United States topped 1,300 Saturday, the highest since the virus struck the country.

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This article originally appeared on the Across Pennsylvania Patch