Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 jumped to nearly 400 Tuesday in West Virginia as four more virus-related deaths were added.
The state’s hospitalization total climbed by 28 to 399, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The hospitalizations include 61 people in intensive care (down eight) and 15 people on ventilators (down four).
The hospitalization total is the highest it’s been since March.
The new deaths – an 83-year-old man from Kanawha County, an 81-year-old man from Cabell County, a 69-year-old man from Wayne County and a 78-year-old woman from Mercer County – pushed the state’s death toll during the pandemic to 7,192.
West Virginia’s active case total remained steady at 3,066 despite the addition of 939 new positive cases for the day. The cumulative positive test rate continued to rise, moving from 8.36% to 8.37% as the daily positive test rate came in at 18.29%.
Forty-one counties remained yellow in the DHHR’s daily alert map. Four counties – Wyoming, McDowell, Mercer and Hardy were gold. The remaining 10 counties – Jackson, Calhoun, Pleasants, Doddridge, Lewis, Randolph, Taylor, Preston, Brooke and Morgan – were green.
Following is a breakdown of active cases by county: Barbour (14), Berkeley (193), Boone (56), Braxton (18), Brooke (29), Cabell (150), Calhoun (4), Clay (13), Doddridge (4), Fayette (67), Gilmer (11), Grant (24), Greenbrier (79), Hampshire (39), Hancock (34), Hardy (58), Harrison (124), Jackson (25), Jefferson (61), Kanawha (238), Lewis (19), Lincoln (29), Logan (88), Marion (88), Marshall (68), Mason (65), McDowell (56), Mercer (171), Mineral (35), Mingo (43), Monongalia (126), Monroe (30), Morgan (19), Nicholas (47), Ohio (64), Pendleton (4), Pleasants (9), Pocahontas (12), Preston (35), Putnam (101), Raleigh (180), Randolph (36), Ritchie (20), Roane (24), Summers (28), Taylor (17), Tucker (12), Tyler (12), Upshur (39), Wayne (40), Webster (9), Wetzel (26), Wirt (9), Wood (206), Wyoming (58).