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West Virginia now has 8th lowest ‘rate of spread’ number for COVID-19

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state added 118 positive cases of COVID-19 to its official count Thursday. There have been 7,277 cases since the pandemic began.

Active cases rose by just six Thursday and now stand at 1,823. The state said 112 other residents have recovered from the virus in the past day bringing that number to 5,330.

The state’s daily positive test rate is at 2.42 percent and the rate of spread number continued to fall at .92 which is the eighth lowest in the country.

The DHHR said hospitalizations have reached their highest point yet at 123 with 47 patients in ICU and 11 on ventilators. Deaths remained at 124 in Thursday’s report.

Overall confirmed cases per county include:

(Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (647/28), Boone (95/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (60/1), Cabell (358/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (17/1), Doddridge (5/0), Fayette (137/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (96/1), Greenbrier (88/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (103/4), Hardy (56/1), Harrison (206/1), Jackson (160/0), Jefferson (288/6), Kanawha (863/13), Lewis (27/1), Lincoln (79/0), Logan (176/0), Marion (175/4), Marshall (125/3), Mason (53/0), McDowell (48/1), Mercer (174/0), Mineral (114/2), Mingo (154/2), Monongalia (913/16), Monroe (18/1), Morgan (25/1), Nicholas (34/1), Ohio (262/3), Pendleton (57/1), Pleasants (9/1), Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (101/22), Putnam (177/1), Raleigh (203/7), Randolph (203/3), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (14/0), Summers (7/0), Taylor (55/1), Tucker (11/0), Tyler (13/0), Upshur (36/3), Wayne (194/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (40/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (230/12), Wyoming (29/0).





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