Thurston County ends week with 71 new COVID-19 cases, including 6 more on Sunday
Thurston County ended the week of Aug. 17 with 71 COVID-19 cases, including six new cases announced on Sunday.
Weekly case counts peaked at 107 in mid-July, but have fallen nearly every week since then, according to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services data.
Despite the modest decline in weekly cases, the county is still in the moderate transmission range for COVID-19, said county Health Officer Dr. Dimyana Abdelmalek in her weekly letter to the community.
“Thurston County currently has a higher rate of transmission than when we entered Phase 3, which required less than 25 new cases per 100,000 over 14 days,” she writes. “As of today, Aug. 18, we show 51.4 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 over the past 14 days.”
The six new cases on Sunday were two men in their 50s, a man and woman in their 30s and a man and woman in their 20s, the county data show.
The county now has reported 923 cases since March 11, when the first case was reported here. Of those, 724 people have recovered or are recovering, 59 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness, and 12 have died.
A man in his 70s was announced Saturday as the county’s 12th death.
There are now seven congregate care setting outbreaks, including at the Thurston County Jail and what the county has described as “two adult family homes, one adult group home, and two long-term care facilities.” A sixth location has yet to be described by the county, The Olympian has reported.
In the region
▪ Pierce County announced 67 new cases and no deaths on Sunday, giving the county 6,445 cases and 142 deaths.
▪ Lewis County reported two new cases Sunday, bringing the total to 323, with 135 considered recovered. Four people have died from the virus.
▪ Mason County is reporting 300 cases with one death.
▪ Grays Harbor County is reporting 184 cases and five deaths.
Around the state, nation and world
Washington state has reported 71,012 cases and 1,863 deaths, according to the state Department of Health.
The U.S. has reported more than 5.7 million cases and about 177,000 deaths, Johns Hopkins University data show. Globally, there have been more than 23.5 million cases and 810,000 deaths.
This story was originally published August 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM.
