The first confirmed cases of coronavirus have turned up in central Pennsylvania.

At a 5 p.m. briefing Friday, state Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said that two adults and one child in Cumberland County have tested presumptively positive with the virus. These cases are linked to international travel and have known exposures, the department said later.

Those are the first confirmed cases in this region of the state. A single case was also identified in Washington County, the first case in the western end of the state.

All told, there are now 41 cases across Pennsylvania. The largest number, 18, are in Montgomery County, followed by six in Delaware County, three each in Bucks, Cumberland, Monroe and Philadelphia counties, and one each in Chester, Northampton, Pike, Washington and Wayne counties.

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Thirty-five are presumed positive; six have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Despite the growth in the number of cases, Levine said that based on track-backs of the contacts that all the known coronavirus patients have had, she is still not prepared to declare that Pennsylvania is in a state of so-called “community spread,” where the virus is so widespread that it’s literally impossible to pinpoint the source of an infection.

The sources of the infection of one case is still being investigated, Levine said.

Gov. Tom Wolf, however, who ordered all schools in the Commonwealth closed for two weeks in response to the epidemic, continued to urge all Pennsylvanians to practice voluntary social distancing through the weekend.

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