PITTSBURGH (100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA) Leaders at local hospitals are reporting fewer COVID-19 admissions.
Two years after the virus began spreading around the Pittsburgh area, the number of hospitalizations has reached new lows.
UPMC officials say 140 patients are hospitalized with the virus at the organization's 40 hospitals.
Allegheny Health reports only 28 admissions at 13 facilities.
UPMC Chief Medical Officer Doctor Donald Yealy says those numbers would have been over one-thousand around two months ago.
The surge of the omicron variant played a role in January's surge in COVID cases.
Officials from the hospitals say the lowering number of cases and hospitalizations can be attributed to safety precautions and mitigation efforts.
