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Whatcom County had its smallest reported increase of COVID-19 cases in six weeks on Wednesday, Sept. 22, according to the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard, but for the second straight day a related death was added to the county’s total. It was the 132nd death related to COVID the county has seen reported during the pandemic. The death was for a person who first tested positive for COVID on Sept. 15, according to the state’s epidemiological data, and was the third death epidemiologically linked to September, according to The Bellingham Herald’s data analysis.