Seven Thurston County residents test positive for COVID-19 Wednesday

Thurston County reported seven people tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the week’s total to 33 new cases. The county also reported a new congregant care setting outbreak, bringing the total to four ongoing outbreaks at care facilities.

According to data from Thurston County Public Health and Social Services, the seven new cases are in:

• A boy and a girl under the age of 10;
• Two women in their 20s;
• A man in his 30s;
• A woman in her 40s; and
• A woman in her 70s.

Along with the new cases, the county announced a new congregant care setting outbreak —the fourth in the past week and sixth overall. The county has not given the names of any of the recent outbreak sites, saying site names will only be announced if the location poses a risk to public health.

Thurston County Health Officer Dr. Dimyana Abdelmalek wrote in her most recent Letter to the Community she wants to continue “safeguarding confidential personal information and abiding by federal and state laws.”

She also explained the outbreak sites are “under quarantine and there is no threat to the general public,” herself having gone to the sites to facilitate testing.

Of the 809 COVID-19 cases that have been reported in Thurston County, 657 are considered “recovered” or “recovering” by the county. Overall, 58 people have been hospitalized for treatment and 11 have died.

Between Aug. 4 and Aug. 10, 4 percent of those tested for COVID-19 received positive results. As of Aug. 10, 23,815 Thurston County residents had been tested for COVID-19 and a cumulative total of 3.1 percent of tests have come back positive.

IN THE REGION

• Pierce County discovered 44 new COVID-19 cases and added one death on Wednesday. A total of 5,780 people in the county have tested positive for the disease and 129 have died from it.
• Lewis County reported no cases on Wednesday, leaving the county’s case total at 243 with four deaths.
• Mason County had one resident test positive for the disease, bringing the county’s case total to 256 with one death.
• Grays Harbor County has had 126 people total test positive for the disease with three residents dying from it.

AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD

• Washington State’s Department of Health is reporting 64,702 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,724 people have died from it since the pandemic began in the state.
• In the U.S., over 5.2 million cases have been reported along with 166,623 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
• Gloabally, over 20 million people have tested positive for the disease with 751,269 people dying from it.