Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine Monday released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard. Updates are released each Monday.

The statewide percent-positivity went up to 3.7% from 3.2% last week.

Counties with concerning percent-positivity include Centre (9.4%) and Schuylkill (6.5%).

The dashboard is designed to provide early warning signs of factors that affect the state’s mitigation efforts. The data available on the early warning monitoring dashboard includes week-over-week case differences, incidence rates, test percent-positivity, and rates of hospitalizations, ventilations and emergency room visits tied to COVID-19. This week’s update compares the period of Sept. 25 - Oct. 1 to the previous seven days, Sept. 18 - Sept. 24.

“Our percent positivity and incidence rate for the commonwealth both increased this week, which serves as a reminder the virus still remains a threat in our communities,” Wolf said.

As of Oct. 1, the state has seen a seven-day case increase of 6,164; the previous seven-day increase was 5,070, indicating a 1,094-case increase across the state over the past week.

For the week ending Oct. 1, 17 counties were in the low level of transmission, 46 counties in the moderate level, with four with substantial transmission.

Carbon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton and Schuylkill counties are all classified as moderate.