Thurston County starts week with five new COVID-19 cases

Thurston County Department of Public Health and Social Services announced five new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. The county’s case total has now broke 300.

The five new cases are in: a boy in the 0-9 year old age range, a woman in her 20s, two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s, according to data from Thurston County. So far in the county, 303 people have been diagnosed with the disease since March 11.

Cases have been skewing younger recently, both nationally and locally. Last week saw 54 people diagnosed, which is the greatest jump in case numbers since the start of the outbreak; 43 of those cases were in people under the age of 50. People in their 20s accounted for 16 of last weeks cases --the majority. Also diagnosed were 12 people in their 30s, six people in their 40s, five children in the 10-19 age range and four children in the 0-9 age range. Four people in their 50s, four in their 60s and three in their 70s were the remaining 11 cases for last week.

Patients who are considered by the county as “recovered” or “recovering” went up to 231 on Monday. A total of 37 people have had to be hospitalized for treatment and five people have died in the county because of the disease. The most recent person to die was a woman in her 80s.

IN THE REGION

• Pierce County reported 60 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday with no new deaths. The county has had a total of 2,863 cases and 90 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak.
• Lewis County announced one new cases, a resident in their 40s, bringing their case total to 83 with three deaths.
• Mason County has had no new cases since Saturday. 54 people have tested positive in the county and one death.
• Grays Harbor County has gone one week without a new case of COVID-19. So far 26 cases and no deaths have been reported by the county.

AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD

• Washington State’s Department of Health is reporting a total of 36,985 cases of COVID-19 and 1,370 deaths related to the disease.
• In the U.S., nearly 3 million people have tested positive and 130,208 have died because of the disease, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
• Globally, more than 11.5 million diagnoses have been made and 536,658 deaths have been reported.

This story was originally published July 6, 2020 at 4:59 PM.