Thurston County announces 2 new COVID-19 cases

Thurston County Public Health and Social Services announced two people in the county tested positive for COVID-19, Monday.

County Data show the two new cases are in a girl between the ages of 0- and 9-years-old and a man in his 20s.

So far 679 Thurston County residents have tested positive for the disease since March 11 and eight of those residents have died from it.

Recently, the amount of people considered by county as “recovered” or “recovering,” went up by more than 200 people to 536 and the number of hospitalizations rose to 56. Both of these increases are “catch up” following data reviews done by the county, wrote county spokesperson Meghan Porter in an email to the Olympian.

Unlike recoveries and hospitalizations, Thurston County gets updates on new cases daily from labs and healthcare providers. “Whenever we get the info is when we report it,” said Magen Johnson, a spokesperson for Thurston County.

When a new COVID-19 case is discovered by a lab or a healthcare provider, they will notify Thurston County. If the county is notified of a case before noon on the day it is discovered, it will be included in that day’s count. However, if a case is reported after 12 p.m., it will be included in the following day’s count, Johnson explained.

Daily case counts for Thurston County are recorded over a 24-hour period starting at noon the day prior to the next Daily Update’s release. The deadline for cases to be reported is at noon each day, so if a case is reported at 12:05 p.m. on Monday, it will be posted by the county on Tuesday. Data collected during the 24-hour period is released each day at around 3 p.m., according to the county website.

IN THE REGION

• Pierce County announced 92 new cases and one new death on Monday. The county has had a total of 5,149 people test positive for COVID-19 and 117 people die from it.
• Lewis County announced two new cases on Monday —a person in their 20s and a person in their 30s. 198 Lewis County residents have tested positive for the disease and three have died from it.
• Mason County reported 19 new cases on Monday bringing the county’s overall case total to 185 with one death.
• Grays Harbor County has reported 88 cases and one death.

AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND GLOBE

• Washington State’s Department of Health is reporting a total of 58,173 COVID-19 cases and 1,596 deaths stemming from it.
• In the U.S., more than 4.7 million people have tested positive for the disease and 155,379 people have died from it, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
• Globally, more than 18.1 million cases have been reported along with 691,303 deaths.

This story was originally published August 3, 2020 at 6:00 PM.