| Five additional West Virginians have died from complications of COVID-19 as of Tuesday morning.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reported an 89-year-old man from Harrison County, a 50-year-old woman from Fayette County, a 66-year-old man from Mercer County, an 82-year-old woman from Kanawha County and a 72-year-old man from Kanawha County have died.
Morgantown bar and restaurant owners have filed a suit against Gov. Jim Justice for closing them down.
On Tuesday, the DHHR also reported 213 new positive cases in the state, for a total of 14,384.
There are now 3,543 active cases in the Mountain State.
The daily positive rate is 4.78% and the cumulative positive rate is 2.75%.
Positive cases by county: Barbour (48), Berkeley (948), Boone (200), Braxton (10), Brooke (112), Cabell (737), Calhoun (24), Clay (35), Doddridge (18), Fayette (577), Gilmer (32), Grant (152), Greenbrier (120), Hampshire (102), Hancock (144), Hardy (82), Harrison (342), Jackson (252), Jefferson (422), Kanawha (2,377), Lewis (38), Lincoln (156), Logan (585), Marion (258), Marshall (160), Mason (138), McDowell (80), Mercer (404), Mineral (165), Mingo (366), Monongalia (1,936), Monroe (147), Morgan (53), Nicholas (92), Ohio (358), Pendleton (52), Pleasants (16), Pocahontas (59), Preston (149), Putnam (521), Raleigh (479), Randolph (237), Ritchie (10), Roane (48), Summers (46), Taylor (119), Tucker (17), Tyler (15), Upshur (61), Wayne (361), Webster (7), Wetzel (50), Wirt (12), Wood (352), Wyoming (103).
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