| Health officials say four additional people in the Mountain State have died due to COVID-19, bringing the state to a total of 170 deaths.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources confirms the deaths of a 35-year old woman from Fayette County, an 85-year old woman from Mercer County, an 81-year old man from Mercer County, and an 87-year old woman from Kanawha County.
Late Friday, it was announced twenty-three residents and eight staff members of the Marmet Center nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19.
West Virginia State University added another positive COVID-19 test, raises total to 13 this week.
A Taylor County nursing home gives update on COVID-19 outbreak,
total rises to 49.
As of Friday, Aug. 21, the WV DHHR says the state now has more than 9,000 confirmed cases of the virus.
Health officials in West Virginia have received 384,143 confirmatory laboratory results for COVID-19 with 84 newly confirmed cases, bringing West Virginia to a total of 9,066 cases, 176 of which are probable. The total includes 1,756 active cases, 146 current hospitalizations, and 7,140 recoveries.
Confirmed cases per county include:
Barbour (33), Berkeley (757), Boone (127), Braxton (9), Brooke (83), Cabell (487), Calhoun (8), Clay (19), Doddridge (6), Fayette (183), Gilmer (18), Grant (131), Greenbrier (96), Hampshire (91), Hancock (116), Hardy (63), Harrison (250), Jackson (182), Jefferson (315), Kanawha (1,178), Lewis (32), Lincoln (115), Logan (425), Marion (206), Marshall (134), Mason (81), McDowell (65), Mercer (264), Mineral (129), Mingo (208), Monongalia (1,030), Monroe (31), Morgan (37), Nicholas (40), Ohio (284), Pendleton (47), Pleasants (14), Pocahontas (42), Preston (133), Putnam (237), Raleigh (319), Randolph (218), Ritchie (3), Roane (23), Summers (18), Taylor (88), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (41), Wayne (224), Webster (7), Wetzel (45), Wirt (7), Wood (289), Wyoming (52).
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