CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s daily positivity test rate for COVID-19 topped 10% in numbers released Wednesday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
The agency said 10.27% of residents tested for COVID-19 during the last 24 hours have tested positive. The DHHR also reported 1,141 new confirmed cases and 27 additional deaths. Overall deaths since the pandemic began are at 1,039.
Deaths added Wednesday include a 53-year old female from Cabell County, a 92-year old female from Wyoming County, a 76-year old male from Brooke County, a 76-year old female from Lewis County, a 79-year old male from Hardy County, an 82-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 76-year old male from Brooke County, an 81-year old female from Ohio County, a 69-year old male from Ohio County, an 83-year old male from Hancock County, a 75-year old male from Mercer County, a 62-year old male from Marshall County, a 79-year old male from Wetzel County, a 73-year old male from Wetzel County, an 87-year old male from Morgan County, a 92-year old female from Marion County, a 66-year old female from Greenbrier County, an 85-year old female from Wood County, a 90-year old male from Pocahontas County, a 73-year old female from Marshall County, an 88-year old female from Marshall County, an 84-year old female from Cabell County, a 73-year old male from Kanawha County, an 82-year old male from Putnam County, a 64-year old male from Kanawha County, an 83-year old female from Berkeley County, and a 68-year old male from Kanawha County.
Hospitalizations increased in Wednesday’s report to 766, a pandemic high. There are 197 patients between treated in intensive care.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of December 16, 2020, there have been 1,339,101 confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 66,849 total cases and 1,039 deaths. https://t.co/7wiziW3OhU pic.twitter.com/lmGdCKHUmJ
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) December 16, 2020
There are currently 21,260 active cases in the Mountain State.
Overall confirmed cases include: Barbour (575), Berkeley (4,745), Boone (841), Braxton (187), Brooke (1,069), Cabell (4,134), Calhoun (112), Clay (211), Doddridge (178), Fayette (1,407), Gilmer (258), Grant (606), Greenbrier (963), Hampshire (682), Hancock (1,378), Hardy (553), Harrison (2,123), Jackson (941), Jefferson (1,914), Kanawha (7,282), Lewis (359), Lincoln (578), Logan (1,261), Marion (1,310), Marshall (1,711), Mason (836), McDowell (755), Mercer (1,935), Mineral (1,900), Mingo (1,151), Monongalia (4,319), Monroe (491), Morgan (482), Nicholas (521), Ohio (2,067), Pendleton (193), Pleasants (219), Pocahontas (303), Preston (1,147), Putnam (2,528), Raleigh (2,166), Randolph (947), Ritchie (265), Roane (244), Summers (334), Taylor (516), Tucker (244), Tyler (250), Upshur (661), Wayne (1,391), Webster (111), Wetzel (541), Wirt (164), Wood (3,813), Wyoming (977).