1 new COVID-19 case in Thurston County Thursday, but 52 of 77 patients have recovered
Thurston County Public Health and Social Services on Thursday announced one new confirmed positive case of COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, bringing the county’s total to 77 with one death. The latest confirmed case is a woman in her 70s.
Twelve of the 77 patients are currently hospitalized and 52 have recovered, according to county Public Health officials. Data on hospitalizations and recoveries was not previously available on the county’s coronavirus web page, but the county now plans to update those numbers daily along with the rest of its data, according to a spokesperson.
Thurston County has added 10 confirmed cases to its total so far this week, following the addition of 31 cases announced last week and 26 the week before. Locals with confirmed cases of the disease have ranged in age from one person the county identified as 19 or younger to two people in their 80s.
Local public health officials have said people with confirmed cases live in all areas of the county.
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Mason County announced one new case Thursday afternoon, bringing its total number of confirmed cases to 18 with no deaths. The latest case is a man in his 70s who is currently isolating at home, according to Mason County Public Health.
Lewis County was reporting 17 cases with two deaths, and Grays Harbor was reporting seven cases with no deaths.
The state Department of Health reported more than 9,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases statewide with 421 deaths, as of Thursday afternoon. However, the state has acknowledged it has had technical difficulties keeping data up-to-date and it’s difficult to judge how current that count is.
As of Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 427,400 cases nationwide with 14,696 deaths and 55 jurisdictions reporting cases, including 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than a third of the deaths have occurred in New York City.
The U.S. leads the world in confirmed cases, Johns Hopkins University data show, though Italy has reported the highest number of COVID-19 related deaths, at 18,279.
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