Pierce County reports 16 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death
Pierce County reported 16 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Sunday and one additional death, a Puyallup woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions.
The county has now reported 1,867 cases and is 74 deaths.
Daily case totals and death information can change as new information becomes available during disease investigation. Adjustments can include correcting duplicate data, assigning a case to another county or learning a test was a false positive.
As of May 22, the Washington State Department of Heath is reporting that 23,462 Pierce County residents have now been tested with 7.4% of tests coming back positive. Those numbers don’t include negative tests from long-term care facilities or the approximately 76,000 tests not yet assigned to a county, which means the positive test rate is likely lower.
The county’s data estimates that 1,323 of the confirmed cases have recovered while 544 remain active.
Sunday’s geographical case totals are listed below with Saturday’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 47 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 135 (134)
▪ East Pierce County: 51 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 87 (86)
▪ Frederickson: 64 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 52 (no change)
▪ Graham: 55 (54)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 7 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 46 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 193 (192)
▪ Parkland: 104 (102)
▪ Puyallup: 134 (132)
▪ South Hill: 102 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 38 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 21 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 64 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 596 (591)
▪ University Place: 62 (60)
▪ Unknown: 9 (no change)
Daily reports include cases received by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
This story was originally published May 24, 2020 at 2:19 PM.
