CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state has recorded 100 COVID-19 deaths.
The state Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed the latest death in its Friday morning case update. The Cabell County Health Department reported the death of the 84-year-old man Thursday.
“We are deeply saddened by this news, a loss to both the family and our state,” state DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said.
It’s the first pandemic-related death in Cabell County.
The state daily positive test rate was at 4.89 percent Friday morning with 1,450 active cases. There are 65 people hospitalized for COVID-19, the most in the state since the pandemic began, 29 of them in intensive care, also a high mark.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of 10:00 a.m., on July 17, 2020, there have been 219,947 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 4,710 total cases and 100 deaths. #SaferAtHomeWVhttps://t.co/o5UJnG8Mqz pic.twitter.com/9mjg12dqkG
— WV DHHR (@WV_DHHR) July 17, 2020
Overall confirmed cases per county include:
(Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (24/0), Berkeley (537/19), Boone (52/0), Braxton (5/0), Brooke (31/1), Cabell (205/7), Calhoun (4/0), Clay (15/0), Fayette (96/0), Gilmer (13/0), Grant (21/1), Greenbrier (74/0), Hampshire (44/0), Hancock (50/3), Hardy (48/1), Harrison (134/1), Jackson (149/0), Jefferson (261/5), Kanawha (464/12), Lewis (24/1), Lincoln (15/0), Logan (41/0), Marion (122/3), Marshall (74/1), Mason (26/0), McDowell (12/0), Mercer (67/0), Mineral (69/2), Mingo (39/2), Monongalia (643/15), Monroe (14/1), Morgan (19/1), Nicholas (19/1), Ohio (174/0), Pendleton (18/1), Pleasants (4/1), Pocahontas (37/1), Preston (88/21), Putnam (96/1), Raleigh (89/3), Randolph (194/2), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (12/0), Summers (2/0), Taylor (26/1), Tucker (7/0), Tyler (10/0), Upshur (31/2), Wayne (141/2), Webster (2/0), Wetzel (39/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (190/11), Wyoming (7/0).