| The dark winter as the COVID-19 vaccine slowly begins.
The number of West Virginains currently hospitalized with COVID-19 has risen to 720. State health officials say 199 of those people are in the ICU and 82 on ventilators.
Calhoun has several new cases Monday, topping 106 total.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources also says 10 more West Virginians have died due to COVID-19, bringing the total deaths in the Mountain State to 978.
The WV DHHR is reporting 1,177 new COVID-19 cases with a total of 64,394 cases throughout the pandemic. Of those cases 21,076 are active and 42,340 West Virginians have recovered from the virus.
The state has received a total of 1,321,330 confirmatory lab results for COVID-19 with a current daily percent positivity rate of 8.33% and a cumulative percent positivity rate of 4.10%.
The WV DHHRâs County Alert System map lists Boone, Mason, Jackson, Ritchie, Pleasants, Tyler, Brooke, Hancock, Preston, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan and Berkeley counties in red.
Counties in orange on the map include Jefferson, Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Webster, Nicholas, Clay, Kanawha, Putnam, Lincoln, Cabell, Wayne, Mingo, Wyoming, Mercer, Lewis, Doddridge, Harrison, Barbour, Monongalia, Wetzel, Marshall, Ohio, Wirt and Wood counties. The map lists Raleigh, Fayette, Monroe, Gilmer, Upshur, Pendleton, Tucker and Marion counties as gold. Four counties are yellow and four are green.
Confirmed cases per county include:
Barbour (562), Berkeley (4,537), Boone (813), Braxton (172), Brooke (1,005), Cabell (3,962), Calhoun (106), Clay (193), Doddridge (173), Fayette (1,377), Gilmer (257), Grant (596), Greenbrier (924), Hampshire (631), Hancock (1,292), Hardy (524), Harrison (2,012), Jackson (910), Jefferson (1,836), Kanawha (7,099), Lewis (343), Lincoln (546), Logan (1,222), Marion (1,262), Marshall (1,660), Mason (798), McDowell (745), Mercer (1,834), Mineral (1,825), Mingo (1,132), Monongalia (4,171), Monroe (482), Morgan (468), Nicholas (503), Ohio (2,011), Pendleton (182), Pleasants (209), Pocahontas (295), Preston (1,081), Putnam (2,477), Raleigh (2,073), Randolph (905), Ritchie (256), Roane (237), Summers (327), Taylor (490), Tucker (241), Tyler (229), Upshur (639), Wayne (1,336), Webster (110), Wetzel (523), Wirt (159), Wood (3,678), Wyoming (964). |
