Pierce County reports 44 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death

Pierce County on Wednesday reported 44 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death.

The death was a woman from South Hill in her 70s with no known underlying health conditions, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.

County totals are now 5,780 cases and 129 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6.

The health department has reported 1,123 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 124.5. The average cases per day over the last 14 days is 80.2.

There are 2,480 active cases in the county as of Aug. 11, according to the health department.

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.

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

▪ Bonney Lake: 136 (134)

▪ Central Pierce County: 376 ( 375)

▪ East Pierce County: 170 (168)

▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 219 (no change)

▪ Frederickson: 221 (218)

▪ Gig Harbor area: 148 (146)

▪ Graham: 199 (197)

▪ JBLM: No longer reported

▪ Key Peninsula: 39 (no change)

▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 178 ( 177)

▪ Lakewood: 528 (522)

▪ Parkland: 323 (321)

▪ Puyallup: 344 (342)

▪ South Hill: 301 (297)

▪ South Pierce County: 133 (131)

▪ Southwest Pierce County: 62 (61)

▪ Spanaway: 266 (263)

▪ Tacoma: 1,833 (1,823)

▪ University Place: 241 (240)

▪ Unknown: 63 (64)

This story was originally published August 12, 2020 at 2:28 PM.