Coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania surpassed 1 million on Thursday, with new daily cases of COVID-19 increasing across the state, state health data show.
As of Thursday morning, the state had reported about 1,000,240 cases of the new disease. The gloomy milestone came in the morning after about 4,667 new cases of the virus were reported on Wednesday, marking the highest number in a single day since the beginning of February.
Overall, daily infections have increased by more than 10% in two weeks, while coronavirus-related hospitalizations are also increasing.
“All of our numbers are going the wrong way,” warned Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, chairman of the Montgomery County Commissioners Council, according to the Associated Press.
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The news comes amid the continued release of the coronavirus vaccine in the state. State health data shows that about 4.6 million total vaccines have been administered in Pennsylvania to date, with 1.6 million of them considered fully vaccinated.
For contextual purposes, Pennsylvania has a population of about 12.8 million.
In the same vein, health officials in Michigan recently warned of an “alarming” increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations among unvaccinated individuals.
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In the first three weeks of March, employees recorded an increase of 633% in hospitalizations among adults aged 30-39 and an increase of 800% among those aged 40-49.
“Michigan is making progress to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing vaccination rates, but the war is not over yet,” said Gary Roth, DO, physician at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA), in a statement to the press. “Now is not the time to let your guard down and take the risk of contracting COVID-19 with more contagious variants emerging and vaccines becoming widely available.”
Fox News’ Alexandria Hein contributed to this report.