Nicholas Bozarth and Jessica Blankenship of Mary's Corner Medical Clinic complete a round of COVID-19 nasal swabs while testing for the virus at a drive-up site located outside the clinic last month in Chehalis.
Lewis County Manager Erik Martin announced one new case of COVID-19 in the county in a meeting with the Board of County Commissioners a Monday afternoon, bringing the total number of cases to 35.
A county resident in their 20s tested positive.
Martin continued by saying 21 of the 35 Lewis County residents who have tested positive have recovered. Of those recoveries, 10 are residents from Commissioner District 1, six are from Commissioner District 2 and five are from Commissioner District 3.
Additionally, Martin confirmed 11 residents that are still within the 28-day window since their symptoms began.
“Once they get clear of that, then they’re considered recovered,” Martin said.
The number of COVID-19-related deaths in the county remains at three.
Lewis County Public Health and Social Services Director J.P. Anderson mentioned that 90 percent of the results for a 150-person test conducted at a congregate living facility in the county have come back.
On Monday evening, Anderson confirmed that no one has yet tested positive.
“We only need 10 percent back to say that the (infection) was not an outbreak, it was one case,” Anderson said. “How one case ends up in a long-term care facility, I won’t take guesses at here, but that seems to be an outlier as far as what we’ve seen around the state.”
As of 11:59 p.m on May 17, Washington state Department of Health is reporting 1,854 tests have been administered in Lewis County, with 1.9 percent of those coming back positive.
