CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Department of Health and Human Resources reported four additional COVID-19 deaths Tuesday on its new-look pandemic dashboard.
The deaths, which are now 164 in West Virginia since the pandemic began, were reported in Logan, Raleigh and Kanawha counties. The Logan County victim was a 90-year-old man, an 84-year-old man and 74-year-old man died in Raleigh County and an 86-year-old man died of the virus in Kanawha County.
“We mourn the heartbreaking loss of these West Virginians and send our deepest sympathies to their loved ones,” state DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said.
The agency unveiled several new features on its dashboard Tuesday including front page posting of new cases in the past 24 hours, 99 in Tuesday morning’s posting and current active cases, 1,830 as of Tuesday.
The state’s daily positive test rate is up slightly to 2.19 percent while the overall positive test rate after more than 365,500 cases is 2.39 percent.
Tuesday’s school alert map continues to have Logan County as the only county in the red category. Boone, Lincoln and Mingo counties are in the orange category. While Taylor County, in the orange category Monday, improved to yellow on Tuesday. Fayette, Jefferson, and Mineral counties have changed from green to yellow. There are 22 counties in the yellow category. The most counties 29, are in the lowest category, green
The DHHR dashboard also now includes a 7-day trend category. There have been 834 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths in the past week.
Overall cases per county include:
Barbour (33), Berkeley (745), Boone (123), Braxton (8), Brooke (79), Cabell (466), Calhoun (7), Clay (18), Doddridge (6), Fayette (175), Gilmer (18), Grant (131), Greenbrier (96), Hampshire (90), Hancock (113), Hardy (64), Harrison (245), Jackson (169), Jefferson (310), Kanawha (1,113), Lewis (28), Lincoln (110), Logan (374), Marion (202), Marshall (130), Mason (75), McDowell (66), Mercer (244), Mineral (129), Mingo (204), Monongalia (1,001), Monroe (20), Morgan (33), Nicholas (40), Ohio (285), Pendleton (43), Pleasants (14), Pocahontas (42), Preston (131), Putnam (227), Raleigh (306), Randolph (217), Ritchie (3), Roane (20), Summers (19), Taylor (84), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (40), Wayne (220), Webster (6), Wetzel (44), Wirt (7), Wood (285), Wyoming (47).