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Feb. 16—Pierce County reported 54 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, with three additional deaths. Totals were last measured by the county on Friday, before the holiday weekend. Here are the totals for previous days: — Feb. 14: 72 — Feb. 13: 106 — Feb. 12: 211 The latest deaths included: — A Lake Tapps/Sumner man in his 80s. — A Puyallup man in his 80s. — A Puyallup woman in her 80s. The ...

Feb. 9—Pierce County reported 78 new COVID-19 cases Monday, with five additional deaths. The latest deaths involved: — A Gig Harbor area woman in her 70s. — A Tacoma woman in her 80s — A Frederickson man in his 70s. — A Tacoma woman in her 90s. — A Gig Harbor area woman in her 90s. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department no longer assigns underlying condition status to individual deaths it ...

Jan. 31—Pierce County reported 187 new COVID-19 cases Sunday. No additional deaths were reported. The county's totals are now at 32,997 cases and 398 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March. The county has reported 3,071 cases in the past 14 days and its 14-day case rate per 100,000 is now 350. Average cases per day in the past 14 days are at 219.4. "We recently changed our ...

Jan. 30—The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department reported 204 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. No additional deaths were reported. The health department no longer assigns underlying condition status to individual deaths and instead counts underlying conditions as part of a percentage of the total number. The county's totals are now 32,810 cases and 398 deaths since the first confirmed case ...

Jan. 27—The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department reported 212 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. Four additional deaths were reported. The county's totals are now 32,158 cases and 390 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March. The latest deaths involved: — A Tacoma woman in her 90s. — A Tacoma man in his 90s. — A Lakewood woman in her 40s. — A Lakewood man in his 70s. The health ...

Jan. 24—The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has confirmed the first case of a variant of COVID-19 in the county, according to a Sunday news release. The health department had "already completed case and contact investigation for this positive case," the release says, and the individual "had mild symptoms and completed their isolation period." The individual had the B.1.1.7 variant, the ...

Jan. 23—Pierce County reported 138 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday and no additional deaths. Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department on Thursday announced it was changing the way it would report deaths. The department no longer will specify whether underlying health conditions were involved in individual cases. The department said it would update that information as a total percentage of cases ...

Jan. 21—Pierce County reported 304 new COVID-19 cases Thursday and nine new deaths. Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department on Thursday announced it was changing the way it would report deaths. The department no longer will specify whether underlying health conditions were involved in individual cases. The department said it would update that information as a total percentage of cases weekly in ...

Jan. 18—Pierce County reported 142 new COVID-19 cases Monday and one additional death as the United States was hours away from reaching 400,000 lives lost in the coronavirus pandemic. The county death was a woman in her 90s from the Edgewood/Fife/Milton area. She had underlying health conditions. The county's totals are now at 30,087 cases and 360 deaths since the first confirmed case was ...

Jan. 17—Pierce County reported 185 new COVID-19 cases Sunday. No additional deaths were reported. The county's totals are now at 29,958 cases and 359 deaths since the first confirmed case was reported in March. The county has reported 3,667 cases in the past 14 days and its 14-day case rate per 100,000 is now 406.5. With a six-day data lag required in the state, the county's case rate per ...