CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two West Virginia counties were in the ‘orange’ category on the daily COVID-19 map released by the state Department of Health and Human Resources Saturday morning.
Doddridge and Mingo counties are listed as having “heightened” coronavirus transmission. If the counties stay orange on Saturday evening’s Department of Education COVID-19 map there will be no in-person instruction in schools in those counties next week.
The DHHR confirmed 206 new cases of COVID-19 across the state in Saturday morning’s numbers. The daily positivity test rate dropped to 1.70%.
There were five deaths added including a 78-year old male from Mercer County, a 92-year old female from Kanawha County, a 79-year old male from Kanawha County, a 96-year old female from Fayette County, and a 71-year old male from Kanawha County.
There are 173 people hospitalized in West Virginia with COVID-19, 60 of them are in ICU while 27 are being treated on ventilators.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of 10:00 a.m., October 10, 2020, there have been 627,403 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 17,913 total cases and 381 deaths. 1/3 https://t.co/8XZcLAWFG8 pic.twitter.com/Ow9CfqOd8n
— WV DHHR (@WV_DHHR) October 10, 2020
Overall confirmed cases per county include:
Barbour (133), Berkeley (1,202), Boone (267), Braxton (18), Brooke (134), Cabell (989), Calhoun (30), Clay (48), Doddridge (49), Fayette (687), Gilmer (51), Grant (172), Greenbrier (141), Hampshire (116), Hancock (170), Hardy (98), Harrison (510), Jackson (313), Jefferson (472), Kanawha (3,080), Lewis (48), Lincoln (198), Logan (675), Marion (319), Marshall (201), Mason (155), McDowell (99), Mercer (456), Mineral (182), Mingo (437), Monongalia (2,142), Monroe (167), Morgan (72), Nicholas (140), Ohio (409), Pendleton (56), Pleasants (20), Pocahontas (61), Preston (170), Putnam (694), Raleigh (604), Randolph (312), Ritchie (18), Roane (65), Summers (63), Taylor (151), Tucker (46), Tyler (20), Upshur (175), Wayne (437), Webster (9), Wetzel (68), Wirt (20), Wood (408), Wyoming (136).
There were a number of testing events scheduled for Saturday including:
Barbour County, October 10, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Barbour County Fairgrounds, 113 Fairgrounds Way, Belington, WV
Berkeley County, October 10, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Shenandoah Community Health, 99 Tavern Road, Martinsburg, WV
Cabell County, October 10, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Cabell Co. Health Department, 703 Seventh Avenue, Huntington, WV
Doddridge County, October 10, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Doddridge County High School, 79 Bulldog Drive, West Union, WV
Harrison County, October 10, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, West Virginia National Guard Armory, 5 Armory Road, Clarksburg, WV
Jackson County, October 10, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM, ElderCare Parking Lot, 107 Miller Drive, Ripley, WV
Kanawha County, October 10, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Kanawha-Charleston Health Department (parking lot), 108 Lee Street, East, Charleston, WV *flu shots offered
Logan County, October 10, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Old 84 Lumber Building, 100 Recovery Road, Peach Creek, WV
Mingo County, October 10, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 9 Mate Street, Matewan, WV
Randolph County, October 10, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM, 22 Buffalo Street, Elkins, WV
Wood County, October 10, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, South Parkersburg Baptist Church, 1655 Blizzard Drive, Parkersburg, WV