Pierce County reports 24 new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County reported 24 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. No additional deaths were reported.
The county’s totals are now at 2,198 cases and 83 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March.
There have been 21.1 new cases per 100,000 residents during the past 14 days, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department website says. Pierce County has had 190 new cases during that period.
Thursday’s count continues a recent trend of an uptick in daily confirmed cases. There were 25 new cases confirmed Tuesday and 17 confirmed Wednesday.
Stacy Page, the COVID-19 communications lead at the county health department, told The News Tribune in an email Wednesday the department is “still watching to see if we can identify any reason for slightly higher numbers.”
The county is not seeing the increase in long-term or congregate care facilities, Page wrote. Causes for the recent increase in cases across the county could be the result of expanded testing or “it could be a true increase in cases related to Phase 2 reopening,” Page wrote.
As of Thursday, the county reported an estimated 370 active cases.
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.
There have been 32,063 tests conducted in the county with positive results at 6.8%, according to the state Department of Health.
That total does not include negative tests from long-term care facilities or the 86,000 tests not yet assigned to a county.
Thursday’s geographical case totals are listed below with Wednesday’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 48 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 152 (150)
▪ East Pierce County: 59 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 101 (100)
▪ Frederickson: 71 (70)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 56 (no change)
▪ Graham: 71 (70)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 9 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 57 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 228 (225)
▪ Parkland: 130 (129)
▪ Puyallup: 159 (157)
▪ South Hill: 111 (110)
▪ South Pierce County: 42 (41)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 23 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 72 (71)
▪ Tacoma: 713 (704)
▪ University Place: 84 (82)
▪ Unknown: 13 (12)
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 June 18, 2020 at 2:14 PM.
