New COVID-19 cases in Pierce County grow by 47 in one day; two new deaths reported
Pierce County reported 47 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday and two additional deaths.
Pierce County totals are now at 2,553 cases and 89 deaths since the county’s first case was reported March 6, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in its daily update.
Daily totals can change as the county receives new information about cases, finds duplicate data or is assigned cases originally attributed to other counties.
The two new deaths announced Tuesday involved two men in their 80s, one from Puyallup and another from Tacoma, both with underlying health conditions.
The county has reported 398 cases in the past 14 days, according to the health department. The 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 44.1, and average cases per day over the past 14 days is 28.4.
As of Tuesday, the county reported an estimated 586 active cases.
The county continues to see a spike in new cases, pushing past 50 in one day on June 26, a level not seen since mid-April.
Of the new cases reported Tuesday, 18 were in Tacoma.
Pierce County is among others in Western Washington to see numbers of new cases grow at rates more reminiscent of times earlier in the pandemic.
Testing is available at various sites in the county. For more information on local testing sites, go to www.tpchd.org/covidtest.
Tuesday’s geographical case totals are listed below with previous day’s totals in parentheses:
▪ Bonney Lake: 52 (51)
▪ Central Pierce County: 173 (170)
▪ East Pierce County: 64 (no change)
▪ Edgewood/Fife/Milton: 111 (no change)
▪ Frederickson: 84 (no change)
▪ Gig Harbor area: 68 (no change)
▪ Graham: 76 (75)
▪ JBLM: No longer reported
▪ Key Peninsula: 11 (no change)
▪ Lake Tapps/Sumner area: 67 (66)
▪ Lakewood: 267 (265)
▪ Parkland: 152 (146)
▪ Puyallup: 176 (172)
▪ South Hill: 130 (128)
▪ South Pierce County: 48 (47)
▪ Southwest Pierce County: 29 (28)
▪ Spanaway: 86 (85)
▪ Tacoma: 828 (810)
▪ University Place: 109 (105)
▪ Unknown: 22 (21)
BEHIND THE STORY
MOREHow we are reporting coronavirus numbers
The News Tribune reports confirmed coronavirus cases as listed by the Washington Department of Health and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in their daily updates.
The state total includes all cases submitted by county health departments by 11:59 p.m. the previous day and is updated once a day by 6 p.m. on its website. Its numbers only include the cases the health departments have reported directly to the state. In some cases, county health departments have reported cases publicly but not to the state health department by the daily deadline, leading to different totals on occasion.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department updates its total by 2 p.m. each day on its website, and consists of all new confirmed cases reported by 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
This story was originally published June 30, 2020 at 2:11 PM.
