Coronavirus

Pierce County reports 50 new COVID-19 cases

Pierce County reported 50 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday and no additional deaths.

County totals are now at 8,147 cases and 177 deaths since the first case in the coronavirus pandemic was recorded March 6.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has reported 730 cases in the past 14 days. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 people is 80.9. 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 68.3.

Average cases per day over the past 14 days is 52.1.

There are an estimated 1,179 still-active cases in the county, 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 testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.

Sunday’s geographical case totals for Pierce County are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:

▪ Bonney Lake: 212 (208)

▪ Central Pierce County: 474 (473)

▪ East Pierce County: 281 (278)

▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 352 (no change)

▪ Frederickson: 325 (321)

▪ Gig Harbor area: 226 (no change)

▪ Graham: 280 (279)

▪ JBLM: No longer reported

▪ Key Peninsula: 63 (no change)

▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 271 (269)

▪ Lakewood: 725 (721)

▪ Parkland: 434 (430)

▪ Puyallup: 478 (476)

▪ South Hill: 433 (431)

▪ South Pierce County: 224 (218)

▪ Southwest Pierce County: 84 (83)

▪ Spanaway: 366 (363)

▪ Tacoma: 2,514 (2,502)

▪ University Place: 319 (318)

▪ Unknown: 87 (86)

This story was originally published October 4, 2020 at 2:43 PM.

Lauren Kirschman
The News Tribune
Lauren Kirschman is the Seattle Kraken beat writer for The News Tribune. She previously covered the Pittsburgh Steelers for PennLive.com. A Pennsylvania native and a University of Pittsburgh graduate, she also covered college athletics for the Beaver County Times from 2012-2016.
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