MONDAY WV COVID-19: RECORD HOSPITALIZATIONS, 636 NEW CASES

(11/24/2020)
COVID-19 hospitalizations in West Virginia climbed to a pandemic-high 463 patients in numbers released by the state Department of Health and Human Resources Monday morning.

The previous high was 429 patients. Patients being treated in ICU, 136, and on ventilators, 60, are also pandemic highs in the Mountain State.

The DHHR confirmed 636 new cases Monday. Active cases are now 13,678. The daily positivity test rate was 4% Monday.

Overall deaths are now 667.

Overall cases per county include: Barbour (355), Berkeley (2,727), Boone (585), Braxton (99), Brooke (543), Cabell (2,575), Calhoun (57), Clay (104), Doddridge (109), Fayette (1056), Gilmer (186), Grant (291), Greenbrier (396), Hampshire (277), Hancock (528), Hardy (203), Harrison (1,096), Jackson (666), Jefferson (1,181), Kanawha (5,235), Lewis (219), Lincoln (387), Logan (997), Marion (732), Marshall (1,047), Mason (349), McDowell (573), Mercer (1,227), Mineral (1,009), Mingo (926), Monongalia (3,058), Monroe (330), Morgan (234), Nicholas (303), Ohio (1,329), Pendleton (97), Pleasants (73), Pocahontas (102), Preston (472), Putnam (1,675), Raleigh (1,415), Randolph (629), Ritchie (128), Roane (148), Summers (258), Taylor (266), Tucker (105), Tyler (126), Upshur (444), Wayne (915), Webster (52), Wetzel (374), Wirt (90), Wood (2,141), Wyoming (615).