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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 ...