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5 new cases of coronavirus reported in Spokane County on Sunday

U.S. Navy Reserve Lieutenant Commander Lisa Tisch, ARNP works at Providence Express Care 's new rapid COVID-19 testing site in Spokane on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Five new cases of COVID-19 were reported by the Spokane Regional Health District on Sunday.

Spokane County has a total of 403 cases with 30 deaths.

For the week ending Sunday, there were 17 new cases of the disease confirmed by testing. That’s a slight increase from the previous week, when a dozen new cases were reported.

Local officials pushed this week for a variance to Gov. Jay Inslee’s stated timeline for reopening some businesses, a request that was denied by the governor’s office. That denial prompted a protest Friday, during which a memorial to those who have succumbed to the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus was vandalized, according to its organizer.

Statewide there were 18,433 cases with 1,001 deaths as of Sunday afternoon. That’s an increase of 155 cases and one new death from Saturday.

Across the border in Idaho, there were 66 confirmed cases as of Sunday, one new case over the previous day. In the state there were 2,419 cases and 73 deaths as of Saturday afternoon. Statewide statistics are not reported on Sundays in Idaho.

Nationwide there are more than 1.4 million cases with more than 88,000 deaths, according to the CDC.