Thurston County ends week with 50 COVID-19 cases; weekly totals continue to fall
Thurston County ended the week with 50 cases of COVID-19, half the amount the county was seeing in early August.
Weekly case totals peaked at 107 in July, but since early August the weekly numbers have fallen from 99 to 76 to 71 and then 69 before the 50 cases reported this week, according to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services.
The 50 cases included two new cases on Saturday and seven more on Sunday, the county data show.
The new cases on Sunday were a man in his 70s, two women and a man in their 30s, a man in his 20s and two girls between 10 and 19 years old. A woman in her 40s and a boy 9 or younger were announced on Saturday.
The 50 new cases increased the county’s overall total cases to 1,042. Of that total, 856 people have recovered or are recovering, 75 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness and 15 people have died, the county data show.
The number of COVID-19 facility outbreaks stands at six, according to the county. That’s down from seven last week because an undisclosed skilled nursing facility is no longer having an outbreak.
In the region
▪ Pierce County announced 30 cases on Sunday, giving the county 6,966 total. Deaths were unchanged at 155.
▪ Lewis County reported 14 new cases Sunday, increasing the county total to 378. The new cases were two residents in their 70s, three in their 60s, three in their 50s, three in their 30s and three in their 20s, the data show. Four Lewis County residents have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
▪ Mason County, as of Friday, had 356 cases and one death.
▪ Grays Harbor County, as of Thursday night, had 278 cases and six deaths.
Across the state, nation and world
Washington state had reported 77,235 cases on Monday with 1,953 deaths, according to the state Department of Health.
In the U.S., about 6.3 million cases and more than 189,000 deaths had been reported as of Monday, Johns Hopkins University data show. Washington state ranks 23rd in the nation for the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Globally, 27.2 million cases had been reported and about 890,000 people had died as of Monday, the data show. On Monday, India’s case count surpassed Brazil’s, making it the country with the second highest number of cases, behind the United States.
This story was originally published September 6, 2020 at 4:28 PM.
