Pierce County starts week with 21 new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County reported 21 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday and no additional deaths.
Pierce County totals are now at 2,507 cases and 87 deaths since the county’s first case was reported March 6, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Daily totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
The county has reported 377 cases in the past 14 days, according to the health department. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 41.8, and average cases per day over the past 14 days is 26.9.
As of Monday, the county reported an estimated 552 active cases.
Over the weekend, the county saw a new spike in cases, pushing past 50 in one day on June 26, a level not seen since mid-April.
The county expects to consider applying for an expanded version Phase 2 this week.
Pierce County is among others in Western Washington to see numbers of new cases grow at rates more reminiscent of times earlier in the pandemic.
The state’s COVID-19 situation report noted late last week that “the upward trends in Snohomish and Pierce counties are not accompanied by a large testing volume change, suggesting that the upwards trends are connected to increasing transmission across the Puget Sound area.”
Testing is available at various sites in the county. For more information on local testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.
Monday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 51 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 170 (168)
▪ East Pierce County: 64 (63)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 111 (110)
▪ Frederickson: 84 (83)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 68 (65)
▪ Graham: 75 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 11 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 66 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 265 (261)
▪ Parkland: 146 (no change)
▪ Puyallup: 172 (no change)
▪ South Hill: 128 (no change)
▪ South Pierce County: 47 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 28 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 85 (no change)
▪ Tacoma: 810 (803)
▪ University Place: 105 (no change)
▪ Unknown: 21 (20)
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 29, 2020 at 2:24 PM.
