Thurston County adds 31 COVID-19 cases Friday, pushing its overall total past 8,000

Thurston County reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the weekly total to 76 cases so far.

That brings the total number of cases to 8,025 since the pandemic began. Of those, 7,676 people have recovered or are recovering, while 465 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness, and 76 have died.

The county has not reported any outbreaks this week.

The bad news: The percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive has been inching up, and hit 3.4% on Friday.

More than 141,000 vaccine doses have been administered in Thurston County, according to the state Department of Health.

In the region

▪ Pierce County reported 192 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths on Friday, bringing its totals to 40,466 cases and 518 deaths.

▪ Grays Harbor County reported 11 new cases and one new death on Friday. The county has reported 3,581 confirmed and probable cases and 58 deaths so far.

▪ Lewis County Public Health & Social Services has reported 3,453 cases and 56 deaths as of Friday.

▪ Mason County reported four more cases on Friday for a total of 1,849 cases with 27 deaths.

In the state, nation and world

The state Department of Health has reported a total of 374,794 COVID-19 cases and 5,322 deaths.

In the U.S., 31 million cases had been reported as of Saturday with more than 561,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. California has now lost more than 60,000 residents to COVID-19, more than any other state including New York, the first state to suffer a huge death toll, where almost 51,000 state residents have died of the virus.

Globally, over 134.7 million cases had been reported and more than 2.9 million people had died as of Saturday.

This story was originally published April 9, 2021 at 4:52 PM.