Pierce County reports 70 new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County reported 70 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday and no new deaths.
There have now been 3,208 cases and 97 deaths recorded since the county’s first case was reported March 6 in the pandemic.
The county has reported 722 cases in the last 14 days, an average of 51.6 cases per day. As of Saturday, the 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 80.0.
The county estimates 1,075 active cases.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department reported Saturday that cases are spreading rapidly among younger people. Pierce County has the highest percentage of positive cases among people in their 20s compared to other Washington counties, according to a blog on the website.
Daily totals for cases and deaths can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
Testing is available at various sites in the county. For more information on local testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.
Sunday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 70 (64)
▪ Central Pierce County: 205 (202)
▪ East Pierce County: 82 (81)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 140 (136)
▪ Frederickson: 116 (111)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 90 (86)
▪ Graham: 89 (88)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 17 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 107 (101)
▪ Lakewood: 328 (321)
▪ Parkland: 181 (174)
▪ Puyallup: 217 (210)
▪ South Hill: 154 (153)
▪ South Pierce County: 61 (60)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 37 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 105 (106)
▪ Tacoma: 1,028 (1,012)
▪ University Place: 150 (148)
▪ Unknown: 28 (31)
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 July 12, 2020 at 2:13 PM.
