Thurston County reports 9 new COVID-19 cases, sets new weekly record
Thurston County’s Department of Public Health and Social Services reported nine new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the weekly total to 38 cases and setting a new record for most diagnoses in a single week for the county.
Thurston County now has had 282 confirmed cases since March 11.
The new cases reported are: a girl 9 years old or younger, a girl in the 10-19 age range, a woman in her 20s, a man in his 30s, a man and two women in their 40s, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s.
Cases have been rising across the nation, prompting governors and other officials to impose new restrictions to prevent cases from spiking further. Gov. Jay Inslee announced he is pausing counties from advancing in phases of his Safe Start Plan for two weeks. He also is forbidding businesses from serving customers who are not wearing masks.
In the region
- Pierce County confirmed 56 new cases Thursday and for the first time in almost a week reported no new deaths. So far, 2,642 cases have been reported and 90 people have died of COVID-19 in the county.
- Lewis County announced there was an outbreak at a Chehalis Safeway, where six of the stores employees were infected; 18 other employees of the grocery store are now self-quarantining in their homes after working in close proximity with their infected coworkers. The county has had a total of 83 cases and three deaths.
- Mason County reported two new cases of COVID-19, bringing their total to 54 with one death.
- Grays Harbor County has reported no new cases since June 29. A total of 26 people in the county have been infected with the disease.
In the state, nation and world
- In Washington state, a record number of new COVID-19 cases were reported on Thursday. The state’s Department of Health confirmed 34,151 residents have been infected since the outbreak started, and 1,342 people have died as a result.
- Nationally, the U.S. had nearly 2.8 million cases of the respiratory disease on Friday, and 129,150 people have died from it, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
- Around the globe, nearly 11 million people have been infected with the disease and more than 523,000 people had been killed by it as of Friday.
This story was originally published July 2, 2020 at 5:15 PM.