COVID-19 case count stays stable in Jefferson County over the weekend

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No new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Jefferson County over the weekend, Jefferson County health officials announced Monday.

The last two confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported by Jefferson County Public Health on Friday, Feb. 26.

The new cases involve a resident in Port Townsend who tested positive, and a resident in the mid-county area.

Jefferson County Public Health does not provide detail on individual cases, so further information on the ages and genders of the residents who recently tested positive were not available.

According to a review of case data released Friday and current cumulative statistics, one of the two new cases was found in a person under the age of 20, and a resident in their 60s.

One of the two cases involved a female; the gender of Friday's other infection was not included in county statistics updated through Monday.

The two new cases pushed the total number of coronavirus infections in Jefferson County rose to 335.

Test results for 218 residents have been received since Friday.

In all, a total of 19,336 tests have been administered to county residents, and 18,953 have come back negative.

A total of 48 residents are still awaiting test results.

In Jefferson County, 313 people have recovered from COVID-19 and 24 people have been hospitalized for the disease. Two deaths of Jefferson County residents have been linked to COVID-19.

Most of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus live in Port Townsend.

There have been 155 cases of COVID-19 in Port Townsend; 150 cases in mid-county; and 30 in south county (Quilcene, Brinnon, and West Jefferson).

By gender, 164 females have tested positive, and 170 males have had positive test results.