| The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed 121 new cases of the coronavirus and six additional deaths caused by the virus in its report on Tuesday.
The DHHR announced 60 new COVID-19 cases along with two additional deaths on Monday.
A COVID-19 outbreak has been reported among staff at an assisted living facility in Bridgeport, according to health officials.
Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department administrator Chad Bundy said there are four positive cases among staff members at Elmcroft of Maplewood. There are no positive cases among residents at this time.
Delegate Margaret Staggers, D-Fayette, publicly posted on her Facebook page this week that she developed a strange cough and got a rapid test because she was supposed to go to work, saying
âI have the Corona virus.â
Staggers is an emergency room physician at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital, which is one reason she had particular concern. The hospital has been affected by community spread in the area.
Virus cases have surpassed 20 million worldwide.
The report from the DHHR stated that as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 11, there have been a total of 330,447 (+3,561) laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 7,875 (+121) total cases and 147 (+6) of those cases resulting in deaths.
The DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a 72-year-old woman from Logan County, a 71-year-old woman from Wyoming County, an 89-year-old woman from Mercer County, an 82-year-old woman from Mercer County, and 89-year-old woman from Grant County and an 83-year-old woman from Grant County as the stateâs latest deaths caused by COVID-19.
According to the DHHRâs website, there are currently 1,865 (-49) active cases and 5,863 (+164) recovered cases in the state.
Listed below are the total numbers of confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 per county, according to the DHHRâs latest report:
CASES PER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (672/27), Boone (105/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (66/1), Cabell (399/10), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (18/0), Doddridge (6/0), Fayette (153/1), Gilmer (17/0), Grant (120/1), Greenbrier (93/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (108/4), Hardy (60/1), Harrison (229/3), Jackson (165/0), Jefferson (289/7), Kanawha (947/13), *Lewis (27/1), Lincoln (94/0), Logan (246/0), Marion (188/4), Marshall (126/4), Mason (63/0), *McDowell (60/1), Mercer (203/0), Mineral (123/2), Mingo (180/2), Monongalia (933/17), Monroe (20/1), Morgan (29/1), Nicholas (36/1), Ohio (269/3), Pendleton (41/1), Pleasants (13/1), Pocahontas (41/1), Preston (104/21), Putnam (199/1), Raleigh (251/8), Randolph (206/5), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (16/0), Summers (14/0), Taylor (58/1), Tucker (10/0), Tyler (15/0), Upshur (37/3), Wayne (210/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (43/1), Wirt (7/0), Wood (244/12), Wyoming (34/0). |
