Pierce County reports 22 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths
Pierce County reported 22 new COVID-19 case and two additional deaths Saturday.
The county’s totals since the virus outbreak began are now 1,787 cases and 68 deaths.
The two additional deaths reported Saturday were a Parkland man in his 20s and a South Hill woman in her 90s. Both had underlying health conditions.
According to a chart on the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s website, the Parkland man is the first from the county younger than the 40-49 age range to die from virus-related complications.
Data now reported on the site assumes about 1,100 residents of the nearly 1,800 in the county who have contacted the virus have now recovered.
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.
Saturday’s geographical totals are listed below with Friday’s numbers in parenthesis:
▪ Bonney Lake: 44 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 130 (128)
▪ East Pierce County: 48 (47)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 85 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 60 (59)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 52 (no change)
▪ Graham: 54 (53)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 44 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 183 (184)
▪ Parkland: 96 (94)
▪ Puyallup: 125 (120)
▪ South Hill: 99 (98)
▪ South Pierce County: 38 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 62 (59)
▪ Tacoma: 573 (567)
▪ University Place: 58 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 8 (no change)
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
