Washington state reports 187 new COVID-19 cases, 17 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health reported 187 new COVID-19 cases and 17 additional deaths on Sunday, bringing the statewide totals to 10,411 cases and 508 deaths.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 4,222 cases and 292 deaths while Snohomish County has 1,844 cases and 70 deaths.
Pierce County reported 931 cases and 20 deaths on its website. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department said on its website the case count likely is low because the Washington Disease Reporting System experienced slow Electronic Laboratory Reporting System uploads and then went offline for emergency maintenance. The numbers could increase again on Monday.
All of Washington’s 39 counties except Garfield County have reported at least one case and 17 counties have reported at least one virus related death.
The DOH is now also able to report COVID-19 data on hospitalization and race and ethnicity, according to a release.
“DOH is committed to promoting equity and social justice and is pleased to now have these data available for our collective understanding of the impacts to Washingtonians,” Secretary of Health John Wiesman said in the release.
“Based on the available data at this time, it does not appear we have the same stark inequities in deaths experienced in other parts of the country. However, we are still working to get race and ethnicity data for a third of the deaths, so we can’t draw firm conclusions quite yet.”
This story was originally published April 12, 2020 at 6:03 PM.
