Thurston County ends week with 16 new COVID-19 cases; overall total rises to 170
Thurston County ended the week with 16 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, including five that were announced on Saturday, according to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services.
No new cases were announced on Sunday. The five that were announced Saturday were a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s, a man and woman in their 50s and a man in his 40s, the data show.
One of those cases is tied to recent outbreaks at either Olympics West Retirement Inn in Tumwater or Infinite Care Adult Family Home in Lacey, according to the county.
County officials did not disclose the specific location for the one case.
Although the county ended the week with no new cases on Sunday, the 16 cases for the week, combined with 23 the week before, gives the county a two-week total of 39 cases.
That’s significant because the county was partly allowed to move to Phase 2 of the governor’s phased reopening of the economy because it was previously under the threshold of 29 cases over a two-week period. Now, the county has exceeded that number by 10 cases.
However, that wasn’t the only reason the county was allowed to advance to Phase 2, according to The Olympian’s previous reporting.
“That being said, a part of us being able to advance to Phase 2 was that we demonstrated that we had the capacity and capability to respond to a situation like this, and I’m confident that we do,” Public Health Director Schelli Slaughter previously told The Olympian.
Overall, the county has reported 170 cases since it began tracking the novel coronavirus in early March. Of that total, 130 people have either recovered or are recovering and there have been two deaths, giving the county 39 active cases.
In the region
▪ Pierce County announced 14 more cases on Sunday, pushing its overall total to 2,050 cases with 80 deaths.
▪ Lewis County has 37 cases and three deaths.
▪ Mason County has 36 cases and one death.
▪ Grays Harbor County now has 19 cases.
Around the state, nation and world
Washington state has reported more than 23,729 cases and 1,159 deaths, according to the state Department of Health.
In the U.S., 1.95 million cases of the disease have been reported and more than 110,000 have died, Johns Hopkins University data show. Globally, 7 million people have been afflicted and 405,000 have died, the data show.
This story was originally published June 7, 2020 at 4:01 PM.
