The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed Saturday were 2,757 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 944,196.

There are 1,628 people hospitalized with COVID-19. Of that number, 350 patients are in the intensive care unit with COVID-19. Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients 65 or older.

The trend in the 14-day moving average number of hospitalized patients per day is about 4,200 lower than it was at the peak on Dec. 25, 2020. However, the current 14-day average is now also below what it was at the height of the spring peak on May 3, 2020.

Statewide percent positivity for the week of Feb. 19-Feb. 25 stood at 6.3%.

As of 11:59 p.m. Thursday, there were 43 new deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, reported for a total of 24,262 deaths attributed to COVID-19.

Pennsylvania hospitals began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 21. The Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine was first allocated to Pennsylvania the week of March 1, and the commonwealth is using it for a special initiative involving educators. Vaccination numbers for Pennsylvania do not include Philadelphia, which is its own jurisdiction, or federal facilities, which are working directly with the federal government.

This week, a total of 3,699,180 doses will have been allocated through March 6:

336,870 first/single doses will have been allocated this week.

189,410 second doses will have been allocated this week.

To date, of the 3,699,180 doses allocated through March 6, 2,777,440 doses have been administered through March 4:

First/single doses, 88% (1,909,291 administered of 2,172,935 allocated)

Second doses, 57% (868,149 administered of 1,526,245 allocated)