Pierce County shows smallest rise in new COVID-19 cases since April 11. No new deaths reported
Pierce County on Wednesday reported just five new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths.
It’s the first time the county has seen fewer than 10 new cases in one day since April 11 when 9 new cases were reported.
The county now has a total of 1,730 cases and 63 deaths, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
The county’s COVID-19 tracking page lists the number of assumed recovered cases as 972 with estimated still-active confirmed cases at 758.
Daily case totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard, there have been 18,954 coronavirus tests run on Pierce County residents with 8.4 percent of them positive.
On Wednesday, the county health department noted that the testing numbers “don’t include negative tests from long-term care facilities or tests not yet assigned to a county.”
It also reported that as of Wednesday, 295 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pierce County are health care workers.
It did not provide an update on the number of cases at care facilities listed from last week’s totals.
Wednesday’s geographical totals are listed below with Tuesday’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 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 52 (51)
▪ Graham: 52 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 42 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 181 (no change)
▪ Parkland: 94 (93)
▪ Puyallup: 120 (no change)
▪ South Hill: 94 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 37 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 58 (57)
▪ Tacoma: 557 (555)
▪ University Place: 51 (no change)
▪ 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 13, 2020 at 2:43 PM.
