1 Million Coronavirus Tests Have Been Performed In Washington

SEATTLE, WA — After data issues caused the state to delay reporting new coronavirus case counts Friday, Saturday the Washington State Department of Health reported 28 deaths and 1,738 new coronavirus cases for Friday and Saturday combined. In addition, the state confirms that now more than 1 million coronavirus tests have been performed in Washington since the pandemic began in spring.

The data issue that caused the delay may have some lingering effects, however.

"The outage caused interruptions in several functions, which means the data we report will be preliminary," officials wrote on Friday. "We also anticipate negative tests will be behind for a few days which will impact our ability to report our tests and percent positivity."

The DOH says they hope to be back to normal by early next week.

The total 28 deaths confirmed on both Friday and Saturday were reported in Adams, Benton, Chelan, Clark, Franklin, Grant, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston, and Whatcom counties. In addition, two of the deaths have not been placed, and a death previously mistakenly attributed to Grays Harbor was also fixed.

The new numbers mean a total of 57,541 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the state since the outbreak began, and 1,592 people have died.

A total of 1,001,528 Washingtonians have been tested for the coronavirus, meaning roughly 5.7 percent of tests come back positive.

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Total coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths by county:

Note that these increases include data for both Friday and Saturday, and as such are much larger than a normal update.

The above numbers are provided by the state Department of Health, and some numbers differ from the totals provided separately by county health agencies.