Circumstances of COVID-19 continued to spike Friday in Walla Walla County, following a three-week development.
In response to the county’s Division of Group Well being web site, one other 29 confirmed constructive assessments of the illness have been reported as of Friday afternoon. That brings the whole confirmed constructive quantity since testing started this yr to 1,231.
There are 219 individuals examined within the county presently contaminated, though most are in house isolation. 13 are within the hospital due to the illness, in response to the figures on the web site — down one from Thursday.
Damaging check numbers have been up to date Friday, too, at 24,308 since testing started this yr.
The numbers on the Washington State Penitentiary remained unchanged once more Friday with no lively instances out of the 156 constructive assessments this yr.
Walla Walla County additionally launched a brand new COVID-19 web site, only a few days after Umatilla County Public Well being began its new COVID-19 dashboard.
The web site — covidwwc.com — has details about signs, testing, group sources, Spanish-language sources and quite a lot of charts and graphs associated to ongoing testing outcomes.
One chart, unseen earlier than this new web site, exhibits a extra direct breakdown of which cities and cities are seeing spikes. Walla Walla has seen probably the most alarming progress in numbers, with 127 constructive assessments since Oct. 3.
In Umatilla County, 26 new assessments have been famous Friday afternoon on the Area 9 COVID-19 Dashboard.
The Oregon county has had 3,461 constructive assessments since testing started this yr.
Extra info ought to be up to date subsequent week on the dashboard, as a lot of the information must do with weekly figures.
