Thurston County reports 81 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday
Thurston County reported 81 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday.
The added cases bring the county’s totals to 5,350 confirmed cases and 58 deaths since March. The county also reported Friday that 320 people have been hospitalized at some point in their illness and 4,495 cases are considered recovered or recovering.
Additionally, the county noted four ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks in congregate care settings. Over the past week, the county saw about 8.2% of COVID-19 tests return positive results.
So far this week, Thurston County has added 346 new cases. Its case rate per 100,000 population over a two-week period is 221.1 cases.
In the region
▪ Pierce County announced 371 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the county total to 28,140 cases and 330 deaths.
▪ Lewis County had reported a total of 2,436 COVID-19 cases with 28 deaths as of Sunday.
▪ As of Friday, Mason County had reported 1,366 COVID-19 cases with 16 deaths.
▪ Grays Harbor County had reported 2,465 confirmed and probably cases as of last Wednesday, with 27 deaths.
▪ Pacific County, now part of the Healthy Washington region with Thurston County, reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing its total case count to 616 and six deaths, with 43 cases currently active. The current case rate per 100,000 over 14 days is 198.7.
In the state, nation and world
The state Department of Health had reported a total of 271,595 COVID-19 cases as of Sunday, with 3,698 deaths.
In the United States, more than 22.3 million cases had been reported as of Sunday, with 373,000 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
Globally, a total of more than 90 million COVID-19 cases had been reported with 1.93 million deaths as of Sunday.
This story was originally published January 9, 2021 at 3:50 PM.
