Pierce County reports 59 new COVID-19 cases, no deaths on Saturday
Pierce County reported 59 new COVID-19 cases Saturday and no new deaths.
County totals are now at 7,708 cases and 170 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has reported 576 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 63.9. The goal for counties in Phase 2 is 25 or fewer per 100,000.
With a six-day data lag required in the state’s Safe Start measurements, the county’s case rate per 100,000 is at 52.4.
Average cases per day over the past 14 days is 33.8.
There are an estimated 1,060 still-active cases in the county, according to the health department.
An average of 1,200 tests per day were run Sept. 6-12, with a 2.5 percent positive rate for the same time frame, which is the most recent data available.
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.
Saturday’s geographical case totals for Pierce County are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 187 (no change)
▪ Central Pierce County: 454 (450)
▪ East Pierce County: 260 (258)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 329 (325)
▪ Frederickson: 307 (304)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 218 (215)
▪ Graham: 264 (no change)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 59 (57)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 243 (240)
▪ Lakewood: 688 (685)
▪ Parkland: 422 (421)
▪ Puyallup: 460 (457)
▪ South Hill: 413 (411)
▪ South Pierce County: 209 (207)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 79 (78)
▪ Spanaway: 352 (351)
▪ Tacoma: 2,379 (2,359)
▪ University Place: 307 (303)
▪ Unknown: 78 (77)
This story was originally published September 26, 2020 at 1:57 PM.
