Pierce County reports 55 new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County reported 55 new COVID-19 cases Saturday. No deaths were reported.
The county’s totals are now at 2,466 cases and 87 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March.
There have been 40.6 new cases per 100,000 residents during the past 14 days, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department website says. Pierce County has had 366 new cases during that period.
Saturday’s count continues a recent trend of an uptick in daily confirmed cases and is the highest one-day total the county has reported since April 17.
As of Saturday, the county reported an estimated 537 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.
Saturday’s geographical case totals are listed below with Friday’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 51 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 166 (161)
▪ East Pierce County: 62 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 109 (108)
▪ Frederickson: 82 (80)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 65 (no change)
▪ Graham: 74 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 11 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 66 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 258 (249)
▪ Parkland: 143 (138)
▪ Puyallup: 171 (167)
▪ South Hill: 128 (124)
▪ South Pierce County: 47 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 28 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 85 (82)
▪ Tacoma: 798 (778)
▪ University Place: 102 (100)
▪ Unknown: 20 (no change)
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 27, 2020 at 3:44 PM.
