Washington state reports 89 new COVID-19 cases, 26 deaths
The Washington State Department of Health on Wednesday reported 89 new COVID-19 cases and 26 additional deaths.
That brings the state totals to 10,783 cases and 567 deaths, up from 10,694 cases and 541 deaths on Tuesday.
King County continues to be the hardest hit with 4,676 cases and 312 deaths. Snohomish County has 1,976 cases and 81 deaths while Pierce County reported a total of 1,022 and 24 deaths on its website.
Garfield County remains the only county in the state without a recorded case. There are 373 cases that haven’t been assigned a county.
The state has now conducted 124,283 tests, up from 122,854 on Tuesday. Of those tests, 113,500 — or about 91% — have come back negative.
On Tuesday, 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 15, 2020 at 5:08 PM.
