Grays Harbor County has seen a sharp increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases this month. As of late Sunday night, county health officials reported 25 cases in the first 19 days of July. As of Tuesday afternoon, no new cases had been added.

The total number of cases for the county is 65, going back to February. As of July 13, the county switched the way it accounts for cases and now attributes the date of a case to the onset of the illness.

The uptick in July follows 22 cases in June. The numbers are subject to change as more information is available about individual cases, but in the four months before that, there were no more than six cases in a month.

Last week, the county announced that one person in the county had died of complications associated with Covid-19, the first in the county to be linked to the virus. No other information was released.

According to state statistics, which show 66 cases for the county, there have been 3,512 covid tests given, with a 1.9 percent of them coming back positive.

Pacific County

Six positive cases of COVID-19 were identified in Pacific County Monday, according to Pacific County Health and Human Services.

“These positive cases are in addition to the 19 previously reported cases for a total of 25 cases,” read an agency statement. “There are currently seven cases being monitored by public health nurses.”

Three of the new cases are from a single household. Two cases are from another household, and one case resulted after a family gathering, according to Public Health.

“There are no known contacts between these groups at this time,” read the statement. “Some of the individuals are symptomatic while others are asymptomatic, and all individuals are in isolation at home.”

Pacific County Health and Human Services will continue to investigate these most recent cases and strongly encourages the public to limit non-essential travel, maintain social distancing of at least six feet between persons, and practice personal protective measures to include: correctly wearing a mask/face covering in public, washing hands often with soapy water for at least 20 seconds, and avoid touching your face.

For the latest Pacific County updates, visit the Pacific County Health and Human Services Facebook page or visit www.pacificcountycovid19.com.