Pierce County reports 68 new COVID-19 cases, three new deaths as spike continues
Pierce County reported 68 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday and three new deaths.
There have now been 3,334 cases and 100 deaths recorded since the county’s first case was reported March 6 in the pandemic.
The county estimates 1,165 still-active cases.
The new deaths involved two Lakewood men, one in his 50s and another in his 80s, with underlying health conditions, and a Puyallup man in his 90s with no major underlying health conditions.
The county has reported 782 cases in the past 14 days, an average of 55.9 cases per day. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 86.7.
The largest age group of the county’s cases involve those ages 20-29, representing 22 percent of the county’s cases.
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.
Tuesday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 80 (75)
▪ Central Pierce County: 218 (211)
▪ East Pierce County: 89 (85)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 146 (144)
▪ Frederickson: 123 (122)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 92 (90)
▪ Graham: 95 (92)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 18 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 110 (108)
▪ Lakewood: 335 (333)
▪ Parkland: 188 (185)
▪ Puyallup: 222 (219)
▪ South Hill: 165 (154)
▪ South Pierce County: 62 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 40 (39)
▪ Spanaway: 115 (114)
▪ Tacoma: 1,054 (1,038)
▪ University Place: 154 (152)
▪ Unknown: 28 (27)
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 14, 2020 at 2:24 PM.
