Pierce County passes 1,300 COVID-19 cases, reports 2 deaths
Pierce County reported 23 new COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths Saturday.
County totals are now at 1,307 cases and 47 deaths, up from 1,287 cases Friday. The county also reported 47 deaths Friday, but has reassigned them to another county.
The two additional deaths reported Saturday include a University Place man in his 50s and a Tacoma man in his 60s. Both had underlying health conditions.
The county did not alter its totals by geographical area within the county, instead reporting 23 additional cases to the unknown category which is now at 30. Puyallup and Tacoma’s reported cases both slightly decreased from Friday’s reported totals.
Daily case totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases that were originally attributed to other counties. The health department has released a statement on delays in data posting.
Saturday’s geographical totals are listed below with Friday’s numbers in parenthesis:
▪ Bonney Lake: 33 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 101 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 36 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 69 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 44 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 50 (no change)
▪ Graham: 41 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 35 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 117 (no change)
▪ Parkland: 59 (no change)
▪ Puyallup: 61 (62)
▪ South Hill: 70 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 25 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 17 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 40 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 428 (430)
▪ University Place: 44 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 30 (7)
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
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 25, 2020 at 2:09 PM.
