A second person in Kitsap County has died from COVID-19, the Kitsap Public Health District announced Tuesday.
The person who died was an older adult with underlying health conditions, health officials said.
The first fatality from the coronavirus in Kitsap County — an older adult who had tested positive for COVID-19 and had underlying health conditions — was reported April 6.
As in the first death, Kitsap health officials would not say where the person who passed away this week lived, or when the death occurred.
Through Tuesday, 141 cases of COVID-19 in Kitsap County have been confirmed.
The two new cases involve a resident of Central Kitsap, and a resident of Bremerton.
Of the 141 cases, 39 have been reported in Bremerton, 36 in South Kitsap, 29 in North Kitsap, 26 in Central Kitsap and 11 on Bainbridge Island.
One death attributed to COVID-19 has been reported in Kitsap County.
There were 12,085 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Washington state as of 11:59 p.m. April 19, an increase of 295 cases in the previous 24 hours.
A total of 652 deaths statewide has been attributed to COVID-19.