Walla Walla County seeing broader community transmission of COVID-19

WALLA WALLA—Walla Walla County Department of Community Health (DCH). has confirmed that Sunday, April 19th, 2020 had the largest spike in daily cases for COVID-19 in the county. Over the weekend, they reported six additional cases of COVID-19, five of which resulted on Sunday.

A total of seventeen additional cases have been confirmed since Friday, April 10th , 2020 increasing Walla Walla County’s case count to thirty-seven. It is important to note that the local daily case count for COVID-19 is not at its peak.

According to the April 21, 2020 DCH press release, five of the new cases are employ...