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Fourteen COVID-19-related deaths added in W.Va.; virus-related hospitalizations decrease


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Fourteen COVID-19-related deaths were reported in West Virginia on Thursday. (Sinclair Broadcast Group)

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Fourteen COVID-19-related deaths were reported in West Virginia on Thursday.

The new deaths pushed the state’s total to 7,822 during the pandemic, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The deaths were:

  • a 90-year-old man from Wayne County
  • a 70-year-old man from Pendleton County
  • a 91-year-old woman from Putnam County
  • a 62-year-old woman from Raleigh County
  • an 80-year-old man from Mercer County
  • an 87-year-old man from Berkeley County
  • an 81-year-old woman from Cabell County
  • an 84-year-old woman from Harrison County
  • an 88-year-old woman from Kanawha County
  • a 75-year-old woman from Kanawha County
  • an 80-year-old woman from Cabell County
  • a 92-year-old man from Webster County
  • an 88-year-old man from Wood County
  • a 78-year-old man from Kanawha County

The active case total in West Virginia sat at 805 with the addition of 325 new positive cases for the day.

Hospitalizations from the virus dropped by 14 to 243, including 39 people in intensive care (up three) and 16 people on ventilators.

Meanwhile, the cumulative positive test rate was at 8.62% while the daily positive test rate was 7.48%.

There were 41 green counties on the DHHR’s daily alert map, followed by 14 in yellow: Mingo, Wyoming, Mercer, Summers, Monroe, Wirt, Ritchie, Pleasants, Barbour, Taylor, Pendleton, Grant, Hardy and Morgan.

Following is a breakdown of active case by county: Barbour (16), Berkeley (62), Boone (4), Braxton (1), Brooke (4), Cabell (46), Calhoun (0), Clay (2), Doddridge (1), Fayette (19), Gilmer (0), Grant (9), Greenbrier (28), Hampshire (9), Hancock (8), Hardy (13), Harrison (40), Jackson (12), Jefferson (21), Kanawha (47), Lewis (5), Lincoln (13), Logan (13), Marion (34), Marshall (3), Mason (12), McDowell (7), Mercer (44), Mineral (14), Mingo (17), Monongalia (58), Monroe (14), Morgan (9), Nicholas (7), Ohio (9), Pendleton (5), Pleasants (4), Pocahontas (2), Preston (7), Putnam (16), Raleigh (49), Randolph (11), Ritchie (4), Roane (5), Summers (9), Taylor (10), Tucker (1), Tyler (2), Upshur (12), Wayne (9), Webster (2), Wetzel (5), Wirt (2), Wood (29), Wyoming (20).

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