Pierce County has 13 new COVID-19 cases, one new death
Pierce County on Tuesday reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death.
The county’s total now is 1,725 cases and 63 deaths, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
The new death involved a Spanaway woman in her 60s with underlying health conditions.
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.
According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard, there have been 18,499 tests run on Pierce County residents with 8.6 percent of them positive.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page lists the number of assumed recovered cases as 952 with estimated still-active confirmed cases at 773.
Tuesday’s geographical totals are listed below with Monday’s numbers in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 40 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 127 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 48 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 83 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 59 (58)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 51 (no change)
▪ Graham: 52 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 42 (41)
▪ Lakewood: 181 (179)
▪ Parkland: 93 (91)
▪ Puyallup: 120 (no change)
▪ South Hill: 94 (91)
▪ South Pierce County: 37 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 57 (56)
▪ Tacoma: 555 (553)
▪ University Place: 51 (50)
▪ Unknown: 7 (no change)
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 May 12, 2020 at 2:20 PM.
