1st Mason County resident tests positive for coronavirus
A resident of Mason County has tested positive for COVID-19, Mason County Public Health announced Tuesday afternoon.
“This is the first case of COVID-19 in Mason County,” the press release reads.
The patient was tested Friday, March 13 at a Mason Health clinic, according to a Public Health press release, and is currently quarantined at home. Mason County Public Health is interviewing people who were in contact with the patient.
A Mason County case was not noted in the state Department of Health’s count as of 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The latest state count showed:
- 1,012 confirmed positive cases statewide, including five in Thurston County, one in Lewis, and one in Grays Harbor;
- 52 fatalities; and
- 70 cases that had not been assigned to a county.
As of Tuesday, the majority of confirmed cases and deaths were still in King County, where 569 people had been confirmed positive and 43 had died. More than 13,000 people had tested negative across the state.
No other information about the Mason County patient was shared in the press release, and The Olympian did not get an immediate response from Mason County Public Health.
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