CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Barbour, Boone and Kanawha counties are the only West Virginia counties in the ‘orange’ category on the daily COVID-19 alert map released by the state Department of Health and Human Resources Tuesday morning.
Barbour County’s 7-day rolling average of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population is nearly 27 cases to lead the state. Kanawha County’s average daily cases top 24 while Boone County is just under 18 cases. Orange is the next to the highest level on the map. Orange represents heightened community transmission of COVID-19.
The DHHR reported eight additional COVID-19 deaths Tuesday including a 70-year old male from Logan County, a 70-year old male from Putnam County, a 79-year old female from Wyoming County, a 73-year old male from Berkeley County, an 81-year old female from Putnam County, an 84-year old female from Putnam County, a 73-year old male from Monroe County, and a 78-year old female from Taylor County. Overall deaths are now at 345.
There were 180 positive cases added from Monday to Tuesday. The state’s positive test rate is at 3.45%.
The DHHR said there are 172 people in the hospital with COVID-19 with nearly half of them, 80, hospitalized in Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) hospitals.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of 10:00 a.m., September 29, 2020, there have been 557,869 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 15,692 total cases and 345 deaths. https://t.co/xkIBPMWcqO pic.twitter.com/XDGL4jfqbc
— WV DHHR (@WV_DHHR) September 29, 2020
Confirmed overall cases per county include: Barbour (78), Berkeley (1,009), Boone (227), Braxton (13), Brooke (114), Cabell (843), Calhoun (25), Clay (36), Doddridge (26), Fayette (629), Gilmer (48), Grant (161), Greenbrier (127), Hampshire (108), Hancock (150), Hardy (91), Harrison (382), Jackson (270), Jefferson (436), Kanawha (2,704), Lewis (38), Lincoln (171), Logan (620), Marion (284), Marshall (179), Mason (143), McDowell (87), Mercer (425), Mineral (174), Mingo (377), Monongalia (2,035), Monroe (151), Morgan (55), Nicholas (105), Ohio (374), Pendleton (53), Pleasants (18), Pocahontas (59), Preston (157), Putnam (576), Raleigh (526), Randolph (252), Ritchie (13), Roane (52), Summers (55), Taylor (127), Tucker (34), Tyler (16), Upshur (84), Wayne (403), Webster (8), Wetzel (56), Wirt (12), Wood (374), Wyoming (118).