| Six more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in West Virginia.
According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, three of the deaths are elderly women who were patients at Eldercare Nursing Home in Ripley. Their deaths bring the total at the Eldercare facility, located in Jackson County, to five.
Department of Health and Human Resources officials say a 98-year-old patient at Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has also died. That's the fifth death associated with that nursing home in Wayne County.
The other deaths reported Monday include a 53-year old man in Wood County and an 85-year-old woman in Monongalia County.
This brings the state's total deaths to 26.
The DHHR says to date, there have been 22,357 laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 908 positive, 21,449 negative and 26 deaths.
CONFIRMED CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (4), Berkeley (113), Boone (2), Braxton (1), Brooke (3), Cabell (34), Fayette (5), Grant (1), Greenbrier (3), Hampshire (6), Hancock (7), Hardy (3), Harrison (30), Jackson (101), Jefferson (61), Kanawha (133), Lewis (2), Lincoln (1), Logan (8), Marion (43), Marshall (8), Mason (10), McDowell (6), Mercer (8), Mineral (9), Mingo (2), Monongalia (89), Monroe (5), Morgan (8), Nicholas (4), Ohio (23), Pendleton (2), Pleasants (2), Preston (10), Putnam (15), Raleigh (7), Randolph (4), Roane (3), Summers (1), Taylor (5), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (4), Wayne (78), Wetzel (3), Wirt (2), Wood (31), Wyoming (1).
Officials say case surveillance at the local health department level may reveal that those tested in a certain county may not be a resident of that county, or even the state,as an individual in question may have crossed the state border to be tested. |
