Nine more COVID-19-related deaths were reported in West Virginia as active cases surpassed 1,000 on Friday.
The new deaths pushed the state’s total during the pandemic to 7,627, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The deaths were:
- an 87-year-old woman from Putnam County
- an 86-year-old woman from Marion County
- a 73-year-old woman from Raleigh County
- an 87-year-old man from Ohio County
- a 91-year-old woman from Ohio County
- a 42-year-old woman from Berkeley County
- a 72-year-old woman from Berkeley County
- a 93-year-old man from Cabell County
- an 82-year-old woman from Putnam County
The state’s active case total topped 1,000 once again with the addition of 292 positive cases. The active total is now at 1,044.
Hospitalizations from the virus decreased by one to 160, including 24 people in intensive care (down four) and four people on ventilators (down four).
Meanwhile, the cumulative positive test rate remained at 8.53% while the daily positive test rate was 6.10%.
There were 36 green counties in the DHHR’s daily alert map, followed by 19 in yellow: Mingo, Roane, Jackson, Mason, Monroe, Greenbrier, Gilmer, Barbour, Doddridge, Tyler, Wetzel, Ohio, Hancock, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan and Jefferson.
Following is a breakdown of active cases by county: Barbour (6), Berkeley (86), Boone (8), Braxton (3), Brooke (13), Cabell (29), Calhoun (3), Clay (0), Doddridge (6), Fayette (19), Gilmer (7), Grant (22), Greenbrier (37), Hampshire (16), Hancock (22), Hardy (15), Harrison (43), Jackson (26), Jefferson (50), Kanawha (99), Lewis (6), Lincoln (12), Logan (16), Marion (32), Marshall (14), Mason (20), McDowell (3), Mercer (24), Mineral (27), Mingo (22), Monongalia (67), Monroe (8), Morgan (11), Nicholas (7), Ohio (36), Pendleton (2), Pleasants (3), Pocahontas (4), Preston (18), Putnam (28), Raleigh (34), Randolph (16), Ritchie (5), Roane (9), Summers (3), Taylor (9), Tucker (2), Tyler (4), Upshur (11), Wayne (12), Webster (2), Wetzel (13), Wirt (2), Wood (46), Wyoming (6).