PM WEDNESDAY: 29 NEW COVID-19 CASES WEST VIRGINIA - USA Has Largest Single Day Increase Of Cases

(06/25/2020)
In the USA today, the largest number of COVID-19 cases reached an all-time high for a single day total.

West Virginia health officials said Wednesday the state has 29 new positive cases of COVID-19.

There have been 156,960 laboratory results received, with a total of 2,629 cases, according to a news release from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The total number of deaths remained at 92.

The state's positive test rate remains at 1.67%. Health officials said 24 people have been hospitalized. Five of those people are in intensive care and two are on a ventilator.

The following are positive cases by county (case confirmed by lab test/probable case): Barbour (15/0), Berkeley (422/18), Boone (19/0), Braxton (3/0), Brooke (10/1), Cabell (97/3), Calhoun (2/0), Clay (10/0), Fayette (62/0), Gilmer (10/0), Grant (15/1), Greenbrier (52/0), Hampshire (40/0), Hancock (18/2), Hardy (41/1), Harrison (52/1), Jackson (142/0), Jefferson (212/5), Kanawha (263/8), Lewis (15/0), Lincoln (5/0), Logan (21/0), Marion (52/2), Marshall (38/1), Mason (16/0), McDowell (6/0), Mercer (27/0), Mineral (52/2), Mingo (12/3), Monongalia (145/14), Monroe (8/1), Morgan (19/1), Nicholas (8/0), Ohio (76/0), Pendleton (12/1), Pleasants (4/1), Pocahontas (23/1), Preston (52/12), Putnam (44/1), Raleigh (34/1), Randolph (154/0), Ritchie (2/0), Roane (11/0), Summers (1/0), Taylor (13/1), Tucker (6/0), Tyler (3/0), Upshur (13/1), Wayne (107/1), Wetzel (9/0), Wirt (4/0), Wood (57/4), Wyoming (7/0).