| The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources says seven more West Virginians have died in connection to COVID-19, bringing the stateâs total to 2,782 deaths.
The WV DHHR also says 233 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the past 24 hours. The new cases bring the state to 160,587 cases throughout the pandemic. Of those cases, 1,791 have been confirmed as variant cases. The number includes 1,546 cases of the U.K. Variant, five cases of the South African Variant, eight cases of the Brazilian Variant, and 232 California Variant.
Health officials say the number of active cases in the state continues to drop with 5,341 currently active cases. Of those cases, 232 West Virginians are hospitalized with 85 patients in the ICU and 28 on ventilators.
The state has received a total of 2,889,332 confirmatory lab results for COVID-19 with a current daily percent positivity rate of 5.79% and a cumulative rate of 5.11%. Health officials say 152,464 West Virginians have recovered from the virus.
The WV DHHR says 887,388 people in the state have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 722,836 West Virginians have now been fully vaccinated. Of the stateâs 65 and above population, 73.5% have been fully vaccinated.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases per county include:
Barbour (1,476), Berkeley (12,602), Boone (2,117), Braxton (970), Brooke (2,218), Cabell (8,780), Calhoun (366), Clay (536), Doddridge (616), Fayette (3,497), Gilmer (873), Grant (1,280), Greenbrier (2,848), Hampshire (1,891), Hancock (2,831), Hardy (1,553), Harrison (5,944), Jackson (2,175), Jefferson (4,671), Kanawha (15,221), Lewis (1,254), Lincoln (1,527), Logan (3,194), Marion (4,535), Marshall (3,503), Mason (2,025), McDowell (1,586), Mercer (5,015), Mineral (2,909), Mingo (2,648), Monongalia (9,303), Monroe (1,158), Morgan (1,210), Nicholas (1,818), Ohio (4,263), Pendleton (705), Pleasants (946), Pocahontas (668), Preston (2,924), Putnam (5,267), Raleigh (6,928), Randolph (2,731), Ritchie (733), Roane (646), Summers (832), Taylor (1,248), Tucker (538), Tyler (736), Upshur (1,907), Wayne (3,151), Webster (510), Wetzel (1,372), Wirt (444), Wood (7,868), Wyoming (2,020). |
