Nearly three dozen new COVID-19 cases confirmed in West Virginia

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Another 35 positive cases of COVID-19 but no additional deaths were added to state totals the state Department of Health and Human Resources released on Sunday morning.

Since March, DHHR said 2,817 COVID-19 cases had been confirmed in 54 counties with 93 deaths out of 166,414 lab tests.

The cumulative infection rate was 1.69 percent on Sunday compared with a daily infection rate of 2.36 percent.

Hundreds of new cases have been reported since the start of June.

The latest rate of spread, previously known as the R0 value, was at 1.10 on Sunday which was up from 1.00 a month ago.

These were the latest numbers from DHHR to start Sunday:

CASES PER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (15/0), Berkeley (432/18), Boone (20/0), Braxton (4/0), Brooke (8/1), Cabell (114/3), Calhoun (2/0), Clay (10/0), Fayette (66/0), Gilmer (12/0), Grant (15/1), Greenbrier (59/0), Hampshire (41/0), Hancock (19/3), Hardy (42/1), Harrison (60/1), Jackson (142/0), Jefferson (217/5), Kanawha (290/9), Lewis (17/0), Lincoln (6/0), Logan (23/0), Marion (54/2), Marshall (42/1), Mason (16/0), McDowell (6/0), Mercer (36/0), Mineral (53/2), Mingo (14/3), Monongalia (153/14), Monroe (10/1), Morgan (19/1), Nicholas (8/0), Ohio (86/0), Pendleton (12/1), Pleasants (4/1), Pocahontas (23/1), Preston (60/14), Putnam (51/1), Raleigh (47/1), Randolph (154/1), Ritchie (2/0), Roane (11/0), Summers (2/0), Taylor (15/1), Tucker (6/0), Tyler (4/0), Upshur (15/1), Wayne (110/1), Webster (1/0), Wetzel (10/0), Wirt (4/0), Wood (74/5), Wyoming (7/0).





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