The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has reported six more deaths related to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday after reporting six deaths Tuesday.
DHHR officials say an 85-year-old man from Mercer County, an 82-year-old woman from Grant County, an 81-year-old woman from Mercer County, a 79-year-old woman from Mercer County, an 80-year-old man from Logan County and a 42-year-old man from Logan County have passed away from virus complications.
With new outbreaks in nursing homes, Gov. Justice has banned all visiting and has continued to close all bars in Morgantown
On Wednesday, the country reported its highest number of deaths in a single day since mid-May, at nearly 1,500.
As of 10:00 a.m., there have been 335,075 total laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 8,008 total cases and 153 deaths.
Of those cases, officials say 1,895 are still active.
So far, 5,960 West Virginians have recovered from coronavirus.
CASES PER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (685/28), Boone (109/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (69/1), Cabell (418/10), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (18/0), Doddridge (6/0), Fayette (154/1), Gilmer (17/0), Grant (128/1), Greenbrier (92/0), Hampshire (80/0), Hancock (107/4), Hardy (60/1), Harrison (232/3), Jackson (166/0), Jefferson (292/7), Kanawha (962/14), Lewis (27/1), Lincoln (95/0), Logan (264/0), Marion (189/4), Marshall (126/4), Mason (66/0), McDowell (59/1), Mercer (208/1), Mineral (125/2), Mingo (181/2), Monongalia (936/17), Monroe (19/1), Morgan (29/1), Nicholas (39/1), Ohio (269/3), Pendleton (41/1), Pleasants (13/1), Pocahontas (41/1), Preston (104/21), Putnam (202/1), Raleigh (259/8), Randolph (206/5), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (16/0), Summers (15/0), Taylor (58/1), Tucker (10/0), Tyler (15/0), Upshur (36/2), Wayne (212/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (43/1), Wirt (7/0), Wood (252/12), Wyoming (37/0). |