CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state’s COVID-19 daily positive test rate continues to be at some of its highest levels in the past several months in numbers released Wednesday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
The rate was at 4.93% with 135 newly confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. Active cases grew by 24 in the latest numbers while 103 people who previously had the virus were marked as recovered in the latest information. The state is back above 1 in the Rt number which measures rate of spread.
The DHHR added eight deaths in Wednesday’s information including an 88-year old female from Kanawha County, an 83-year old female from Taylor County, an 84-year old female from Taylor County, a 72-year old male from Ohio County, a 67-year old female from Logan County, a 67-year old female from Nicholas County, a 73-year old female from Harrison County, and an 88-year old male from Jackson County.
“We regret to report more deaths of our fellow West Virginians,” state DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said. “Each life lost to this disease is heartbreaking. We send our sympathies to these families.”
There have been 26 deaths reported in the last seven days.
The COVID-19 county alert map Wednesday continued to have Monongalia, Kanawha, Fayette, Logan and Mingo counties in the “orange” category showing substantial rate of spread. Monroe County is the only county in the “red.”
Counties in the “red” and “orange” categories won’t be allowed to have in-person instruction in schools when the school year begins on Sept. 8.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of 10:00 a.m., on September 2, 2020, there have been 441,396 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 10,642 total cases and 230 deaths.https://t.co/5suin1nn33 pic.twitter.com/CT2ufoWe5Z
— WV DHHR (@WV_DHHR) September 2, 2020
Overall confirmed COVID-19 cases per county include: Barbour (34), Berkeley (808), Boone (143), Braxton (9), Brooke (95), Cabell (555), Calhoun (10), Clay (27), Doddridge (6), Fayette (365), Gilmer (19), Grant (141), Greenbrier (105), Hampshire (92), Hancock (121), Hardy (75), Harrison (272), Jackson (204), Jefferson (365), Kanawha (1,515), Lewis (33), Lincoln (123), Logan (501), Marion (219), Marshall (133), Mason (109), McDowell (71), Mercer (318), Mineral (144), Mingo (250), Monongalia (1,209), Monroe (126), Morgan (37), Nicholas (53), Ohio (289), Pendleton (45), Pleasants (15), Pocahontas (43), Preston (140), Putnam (294), Raleigh (372), Randolph (227), Ritchie (5), Roane (33), Summers (19), Taylor (106), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (45), Wayne (259), Webster (7), Wetzel (46), Wirt (8), Wood (309), Wyoming (67).