Thurston County reports 10 new cases of COVID-19, brings week’s total to 29

Thurston County confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, bringing the weeks total to 29. This week already has the second highest number of new cases, falling barely behind the week of March 30, when 31 cases were reported.

According to data from Thurston County’s Department of Health and Public Services, the new cases are in: one man and one woman in their 20s, two women and one man in their 30s, two women and one man in their 50s, a man in his 60s, and a woman in her 70s. Thurston County has had 273 confirmed cases of the disease since March 11, when the first case was recorded.

Half of the cases today are part of the ongoing trend of younger people catching the disease. In yesterday’s Letter to the Community, Thurston County’s Acting Public Health Director Dr. Diana Yu wrote the rise in cases are a result of travel, some of which was ”to areas with a rapid rise in cases, like Arizona.” Some of the new cases are household contacts of previously confirmed cases, some are from people meeting up with friends, others are from work and “the rest have been exposed in the community,” she wrote.

People in Thurston County who are considered “recovered” or “recovering” went up to 228 today, and the amount of people who have been hospitalized at some point over the course of the pandemic went up to 35. So far Thurston County has had four residents die from the disease.

IN THE REGION

• Pierce County is reporting 34 new cases of COVID-19 today and that another resident has died from the respiratory disease. The county’s total is now 2,587 cases with 90 deaths.
• Lewis County announces five new cases, two people in their 20s, two in their 30s and one in their 60s. This brings their total to 77 cases with three deaths.
• Mason County also confirmed five new cases in their county, bringing their total to 52 cases with one death.
• Grays Harbor County has had no new cases since Monday, June 29. To date, there have been a total of 26 cases and no deaths.

AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND GLOBE

• Washington State Department of Health reports that 33,435 people have been at some point diagnosed with COVID-19 and 1,339 people have died from it.
• The U.S. continues to lead the world in confirmed cases, currently more than 2.67 million people have been diagnosed and 127,970 people have died from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
• Globally, more than 10.6 million cases have been reported and 514,527 people have died from the disease.

This story was originally published July 1, 2020 at 4:48 PM.