Pierce County reports 26 new COVID-19 cases
Pierce County on Sunday reported 26 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths.
County totals are now at 6,648 cases and 146 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has reported 648 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 71.8. The goal for counties in Phase 2 is 25 or fewer per 100,000.
The average cases per day over the past 14 days is 46.3.
There are an estimated 1,624 still-active cases in the county, according to the health department.
Cases involving younger people continued to lead in impacts countywide.
In an update Thursday morning, the health department noted that in the past two weeks, 39.9 percent of cases were in the 20-39 age group. That age group represents 27 percent of Pierce County population.
That was higher than cases involving those age 60 or older (18.9 percent) or healthcare workers (9.8 percent), according to the update.
The health department has created a new dashboard to show how the county is doing in terms of returning students to in-person classes. The dashboard is at TPCHD.org/covidinfoschools.
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 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: 169 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 395 (no change)
▪ East Pierce County: 202 (201)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 275 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 252 (251)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 182 (178)
▪ Graham: 225 (224)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 49 (50)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 216 (no change)
▪ Lakewood: 616 (no change)
▪ Parkland: 362 (no change)
▪ Puyallup: 386 (384)
▪ South Hill: 353 (351)
▪ South Pierce County: 160 (no change)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 69 (no change)
▪ Spanaway: 313 (312)
▪ Tacoma: 2,073 (2,062)
▪ University Place: 271 (270)
▪ Unknown: 80 (77)
This story was originally published August 30, 2020 at 2:11 PM.
