Washington state passes 28K COVID-19 cases
The Washington State Department of Health reported 624 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths Saturday.
Statewide totals have reached 28,225 cases and 1,265 deaths, up from 27,601 cases and 1,255 deaths Friday.
King County has 9,154 cases and 601 deaths, while Yakima County has 6,129 cases and 136 deaths and Snohomish County has 3,226 cases and 163 deaths.
Pierce County reported 32 new cases Saturday, bringing its totals to 2,257 cases and 84 deaths.
Nineteen of the state’s 39 counties have reported more than 100 cases, and 11 counties have reported at least 10 virus-related deaths.
Garfield, the state’s least populous county, remains the only county without a reported case. Six other counties are reporting fewer than 10 cases each.
There are 62 cases that have not been assigned to a county.
There were 12 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 admitted to state hospitals on June 12, the most recent date with complete data. The total number of people who have been hospitalized in the state stood at 4,030 on Saturday.
There have been 466,069 tests conducted in the state with 6.1% coming back positive.
The test numbers reflect only polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are given to patients while the virus is presumably still active in the body.
This story was originally published June 20, 2020 at 5:43 PM.
