Coronavirus

Pierce County reports 21 new COVID-19 cases

Pierce County reported on Sunday 21 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths.

The county’s totals are now at 2,487 cases and 87 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March.

There have been 40.8 new cases per 100,000 residents during the past 14 days, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department website says. Pierce County has had 368 new cases during that period, an average of 26.3 cases per day.

Saturday’s count of 55 new cases was the highest one-day total the county has reported since April 17.

As of Sunday, the county reported an estimated 541 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.

Sunday’s geographical case totals are listed below with Saturdays totals in parentheses:

▪ Bonney Lake: 51 (no change)

▪ Central Pierce County: 168 (166)

▪ East Pierce County: 63 (62)

▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 110 (109)

▪ Frederickson: 83 (82)

▪ Gig Harbor area: 65 (no change)

▪ Graham: 75 (74)

▪ JBLM: No longer reported

▪ Key Peninsula: 11 (no change)

▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 66 (no change)

▪ Lakewood: 261 (258)

▪ Parkland: 146 (143)

▪ Puyallup: 172 (171)

▪ South Hill: 128 (no change)

▪ South Pierce County: 47 (no change)

▪ Southwest Pierce County: 28 (no change)

▪ Spanaway: 85 (no change)

▪ Tacoma: 803 (798)

▪ University Place: 105 (102)

▪ Unknown: 20 (no change)

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How 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 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM.

Lauren Kirschman
The News Tribune
Lauren Kirschman is the Seattle Kraken beat writer for The News Tribune. She previously covered the Pittsburgh Steelers for PennLive.com. A Pennsylvania native and a University of Pittsburgh graduate, she also covered college athletics for the Beaver County Times from 2012-2016.
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