Washington state reports 156 new COVID-19 cases, 25 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 156 new COVID-19 cases and 25 additional deaths.
That brings the state totals to 10,694 cases and 541 deaths, up from 10,538 cases and 516 deaths on Monday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 4,612 cases and 303 deaths. Snohomish County has 1,916 cases and 77 deaths while Pierce County reported a total of 1,000 and 23 deaths on its website.
Garfield County remains the only county in the state without a recorded case. There are 383 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
After making modifications to its data system, the DOH is now able to report negative testing results for the first time since April 3. Positive and negative testing results have been updated back through April 4. There have been 122,854 tests given in the state with 112,160, or 91%, coming back negative.
The DOH also provided an update on changing case counts.
“Many lab reports originally come in with an unassigned county and are counted as cases,” the DOH said in a statement on its website. “We have been working to improve the quality of our address information and as we have done this, a number of cases have been determined to be out of state. These are no longer counted as Washington State cases and have been removed from our case counts.
This story was originally published April 14, 2020 at 9:15 PM.
