“Beach house gatherings” on the Jersey Shore are linked to nearly a dozen new coronavirus cases in one Pennsylvania county. Officials with the Bucks County Department of Health over the weekend announced that 11 of the county’s 33 newly identified cases of COVID-19 are connected to a New Jersey resident who “attended multiple house gatherings at the Shore during the past two weeks,” per a news release. “This is exactly why we can’t let our guard down now, even if it feels ‘safe’ to be at the beach,” said Dr. David Damsker, director of the Bucks County Health Department, in a statement. Nearly 5,000 Bucks County residents have tested positive for the novel virus, per officials. To date, Pennsylvania has seen more than 75,000 cases of COVID-19, according to official estimates.

Source: Fox News June 08, 2020 15:18 UTC