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DHHR: Positive test rate for coronavirus stays below 3 percent in latest report

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia ended Monday with a positive coronavirus test rate of 2.49 percent, more than a half-percent below what Go. Jim Justice is requiring to restart the state’s economy.

Justice’s six-week reopening plan, which he rolled out late Monday morning, will only begin if the positive test rate stays below three percent for three consecutive days. Monday is day one.

In Monday evening’s report, the state Department of Health and Human Resources said 43,227 coronavirus tests have been given in West Virginia with 1,077 confirming positive for coronavirus while 42,150 of the tests came back negative. There have been more than 11,000 new tests results reported since last Friday with only 67 of those tests coming back positive.

The DHHR did report a 37th death Monday evening. A 91-year-old woman from Jackson County became the 12th COVID-19 death in Jackson County. According to the DHHR website, nine of those deaths have been at the Eldercare nursing home in Ripley. The state reported two other deaths from Jackson County in its Monday morning report.

Bill Crouch

“It is with great sadness that we announce another life lost to this pandemic. Our sympathies and thoughts go out to this family,” DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said.

The state is reporting 561 active COVID-19 cases with 87 people in the hospital, 28 of them in ICU. There are 15 patients being treated with a ventilator.

The cases confirmed per county include:

Barbour (4), Berkeley (139), Boone (2), Braxton (2), Brooke (3), Cabell (40), Fayette (10), Gilmer (2), Grant (1), Greenbrier (3), Hampshire (7), Hancock (7), Hardy (3), Harrison (30), Jackson (127), Jefferson (75), Kanawha (156), Lewis (4), Lincoln (1), Logan (12), Marion (45), Marshall (11), Mason (12), McDowell (6), Mercer (9), Mineral (14), Mingo (2), Monongalia (102), Monroe (5), Morgan (9), Nicholas (6), Ohio (26), Pendleton (3), Pleasants (2), Pocahontas (1), Preston (13), Putnam (21), Raleigh (8), Randolph (4), Roane (4), Summers (1), Taylor (6), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (4), Wayne (83), Wetzel (3), Wirt (3), Wood (38), Wyoming (1).





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