Thurston County ends week with 165 cases of COVID-19, a new weekly high
Thurston County set a new weekly high for confirmed cases of COVID-19 after the county announced 24 more cases on Sunday.
That increased the weekly total to 165 and the overall total to 1,909, according to Thurston County Public Health and Social Services.
It’s also the fifth consecutive week of 100 or more cases and the fourth straight week in which the week-over-week total has grown, the data show. The county reported 116 cases the week of Oct. 5, followed by 148, 151 and 165 for the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1.
Sunday’s new cases included five people in their 30s and five people in their 20s, the largest age group to contract the virus, or 386 cases to date, representing 21 percent of the overall total of 1,909.
Of the total cases, 1,389 people have recovered or are recovering, 137 have been hospitalized at some point during their illness and 33 have died, including 10 in the past seven days, county data show. There also are now seven congregate care setting outbreaks, up from a previously reported total of six.
Six of the seven locations have been identified as two adult family homes, two assisted living facilities and two nursing homes.
In the region
▪ Pierce County added 104 new cases on Monday and one new death, a woman in her 80s from Lakewood with underlying health conditions. The county now has a total of 10,441 cases and 194 deaths.
▪ Lewis County reported 11 new cases on Sunday for a total of 766 cases and 12 deaths.
▪ Grays Harbor County reported 741 cases and 12 deaths as of Sunday.
▪ Mason County reported six additional cases on Monday for a total of 585 with 10 deaths.
Around the state, nation and world
The state Department of Health reported 814 new cases on Sunday to give the state 108,315 cases with 2,366 deaths.
In the U.S., 9.2 million cases had been reported with more than 231,000 deaths as of Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Globally, more than 46.8 million cases had been reported and more than 1.2 million people had died as of Sunday, the data show.
This story was originally published November 1, 2020 at 3:36 PM.
