Thurston County reports 15 new COVID-19 cases Saturday
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose by just 15 on Saturday, according to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services.
With two days to go, there have been just 135 new cases reported in the county this week.
Saturday’s cases bring the total to 6,601. Of those, 5,018 people are considered recovered and recovering, while 334 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness (including two in the past week), and 63 have died.
The percent of positive tests over the past week is 6.3%, down from nearly 10% in January.
The new cases were a woman in her 80s, a woman in her 70s, two men in their 60s, a woman in her 50s, two women in their 40s, a man in his 30s, four people in their 20s, a male between 10 and 19, and two boys under the age of 9.
In the region
▪ Pierce County on Friday reported 131 new COVID-19 cases, and three deaths. The county has reported a total of 33,644 cases and 411 deaths. The county doesn’t update numbers on weekends.
▪ Grays Harbor County is reporting a total of 3,052 cases with 37 deaths.
▪ Lewis County Public Health & Social Services reported 20 additional COVID-19 cases on Friday. The total number of Lewis County residents diagnosed with COVID-19 is now 3,018; the death total remains at 37.
▪ Mason County reported nine new COVID-19 cases Friday, bringing its total to 1,623 cases with 22 deaths.
▪ Pacific County reported nine new cases Saturday, bringing its total of 680 cases with eight deaths.
In the state, nation and world
The state Department of Health had reported 320,146 confirmed and probable cases as of Sunday and 4,449 deaths as of Friday. The state does not report new deaths over the weekend.
In the U.S., nearly 27 million COVID-19 cases had been reported as of Sunday with 463,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Globally, 106 million cases had been reported and 2.3 million people had died as of Sunday, the data show.
This story was originally published February 6, 2021 at 5:23 PM.
