Pierce County COVID-19 case total now at 875 with 19 deaths
Pierce County reported 37 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and two more deaths, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
The county now has 875 confirmed cases and 19 deaths.
The two new deaths were two women from Tacoma, both with underlying medical conditions. One was in her 80s, the other in her 70s.
In the latest totals, the Edgewood/Fife/Milton area saw 10 new cases reported in the span of one day.
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.
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. No new testing totals for the county have been made available since that time.
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day. Thursday geographical totals are listed below with Wednesday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 25 (24)
▪ Central Pierce County: 50 (48)
▪ East Pierce County: 25 (25)
▪ Edgwood/Fife/Milton: 50 (40)
▪ Frederickson: 24 (21)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 44 (43)
▪ Graham: 35 (32)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 6 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 21 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 70 (67)
▪ Parkland: 39 (38)
▪ Puyallup: 43 (no change)
▪ South Hill: 51 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 16 (15)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 8 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 29 (28)
▪ Tacoma: 309 (300)
▪ University Place: 30 (28)
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.
