Pierce County now has more than 800 COVID-19 cases; 300 are in Tacoma
Pierce County added 45 new COVID-19 cases to its total, now at 838, and one new death for a total of 17, according to numbers posted Thursday by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Of that total, 300 of the cases are in Tacoma.
Thursday’s death involved an Edgewood man in his 70s.
Totals for the county have been shifting each day as investigations unfold and duplicate cases are removed or more cases added, so the “new cases added” tally might not correspond to the previous day’s total.
No new testing numbers were released by the county. Tests have been run on 8,870 Pierce County residents as of April 5 by private and public labs, according to the state Department of Heath. The state health department is still facing a delay in reporting coronavirus test numbers.
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day. Wednesday geographical totals are listed below with Tuesday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 24 (22)
▪ Central Pierce County: 48 (47)
▪ East Pierce County: 25 (22)
▪ Edgwood/Fife/Milton: 40 (35)
▪ Frederickson: 21 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 43 (42)
▪ Graham: 32 (27)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 6 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 21 (20)
▪ Lakewood: 67 (66)
▪ Parkland: 38 (33)
▪ Puyallup: 43 (36)
▪ South Hill: 51 (46)
▪ South Pierce County: 15 (14)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 8 (7)
▪ Spanaway: 28 (25)
▪ Tacoma: 300 (287)
▪ University Place: 28 (24)
BEHIND THE STORY
MOREHow we are reporting coronavirus numbers
The News Tribune reports confirmed coronavirus cases as listed by the Washington Department of Health and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in their daily updates.
The state total includes all cases submitted by county health departments by 11:59 p.m. the previous day and is updated once a day by 6 p.m. on its website. Its numbers only include the cases the health departments have reported directly to the state. In some cases, county health departments have reported cases publicly but not to the state health department by the daily deadline, leading to different totals on occasion.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department updates its total by 2 p.m. each day on its website, and consists of all new confirmed cases reported by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
This story was originally published April 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM.
