Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers reported Friday in Washington state

The Washington state Department of Health reported 3,284 new COVID-19 cases and 39 deaths Friday.

Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 660,910 and 7,765 deaths. The case total includes 74,156 infections listed as probable. DOH revises previous case and death counts daily.

Washington’s population is estimated at about 7.7 million, according to the latest U.S. Census figures.

Hospitalizations

As of Sept. 22, the date with the most recent complete data, 123 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals.

Case rates

For the past seven days, Washington has had a case rate of 170.1 per 100,000 people.

The national rate for the same period was 220.7 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vaccine

According to the CDC, more than 9.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington.

On the national level, more than 393.7 million shots of the approved vaccines have been given, according to CDC statistics.

As of Wednesday, 57.6% of Washington residents and 55.9% of the U.S. population have been fully vaccinated.

Testing

On Sept. 15, DOH stopped updating testing statistics on its website because it was having difficulty processing an increase in data. The agency said the halt in updating will continue through Oct. 31.

County numbers

According to DOH data, King County, with the state’s highest population, continues to have the highest numbers in Washington, with 152,022 cases and 1,874 deaths. Pierce County, second in population, is second in cases, with 83,884. Pierce County has the third-highest number of deaths, at 805, according to DOH, which counts deaths differently than the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.

All counties in Washington have at least 100 cases. Only seven of the state’s 39 counties have case counts of fewer than 1,000.

U.S. and world numbers

There have been more than 43.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 699,943 deaths from the virus in the United States as of Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest total number of reported cases and deaths of any nation.

More than 4.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide. Global cases exceed 234 million.

This story was originally published October 1, 2021 at 5:19 PM.