Pierce County reports 112 new COVID-19 cases Thursday and 2 new deaths

Pierce County on Thursday reported 112 new COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths.

County totals are now 4,784 cases and 115 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6. The two deaths reported Thursday were a woman in her 50s from Tacoma and a woman in her 80s from South Hill. Both had underlying health conditions.

The Tacoma Pierce-County Health Department has reported 1,310 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 145.2. The average cases per day over the last 14 days is 93.6. There were 2,130 active cases as of July 29.

“We see an increase of cases from all types of gatherings where people are not physical distancing and not wearing face coverings – social, business, civic, political, athletic, religious – any type of gathering,” the health department said Thursday.

Daily totals for cases and deaths can change as the county receives new information, 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 other local testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.

Thursday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:

▪ Bonney Lake: 113 (112)

▪ Central Pierce County: 318 (307)

▪ East Pierce County: 123 (no change)

▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 188 (187)

▪ Frederickson: 181 (178)

▪ Gig Harbor area: 121 (119)

▪ Graham: 145 (141)

▪ JBLM: No longer reported

▪ Key Peninsula: 26 (no change)

▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 151 (147)

▪ Lakewood: 451 (438)

▪ Parkland: 279 (273)

▪ Puyallup: 305 (295)

▪ South Hill: 255 (247)

▪ South Pierce County: 96 (94)

▪ Southwest Pierce County: 53 (no change)

▪ Spanaway: 190 (183)

▪ Tacoma: 1,533 (1,508)

▪ University Place: 209 (205)

▪ Unknown: 47 (48)

This story was originally published July 30, 2020 at 2:32 PM.