Pierce County reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death
Pierce County reported on Sunday 14 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death, a Tacoma woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions.
County totals are now at 1,321 cases and 48 deaths, up from 1,307 cases on Saturday.
Daily case totals can change as the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department receives new information. Adjustments can include correcting duplicate data, assigning a case to another county or learning a test was a false positive.
The county did not alter its totals by geographical area within the county on Saturday. Instead, the county reported 23 additional cases to the unknown category, which brought the total to 30. Of those cases, 27 were assigned a geographical area on Sunday. Three cases remain unknown.
Sunday’s geographical totals are listed below with Saturday’s numbers in parenthesis:
▪ Bonney Lake: 33 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 103 (101)
▪ East Pierce County: 38 (36)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 72 (69)
▪ Frederickson: 45 (44)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 50 (no change)
▪ Graham: 42 (41)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 35 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 121 (117)
▪ Parkland: 63 (59)
▪ Puyallup: 63 (61)
▪ South Hill: 73 (70)
▪ South Pierce County: 28 (25)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 17 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 42 (40)
▪ Tacoma: 441 (428)
▪ University Place: 45 (44)
▪ Unknown: 3 (30)
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
This story was originally published April 26, 2020 at 2:07 PM.
