CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A pandemic-record intensive care unit beds are now being filled with COVID-19 patients in West Virginia, according to case numbers released Tuesday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
There are 213 ICU beds being used statewide. The previous pandemic high was 207 which happened on Dec. 14. The DHHR reported 761 people hospitalized with the virus at the end of the day Monday.
Twenty-one deaths were added Tuesday including a 90-year old male from Marshall County, a 74-year old male from Hancock County, a 71-year old male from Pendleton County, an 80-year old male from Greenbrier County, an 86-year old female from McDowell County, a 62-year old male from Marshall County, a 67-year old female from Greenbrier County, an 89-year old male from Cabell County, an 84-year old male from Tucker County, a 95-year old male from Monongalia County, a 91-year old male from Putnam County, an 80-year old female from Cabell County, an 81-year old female from Preston County, an 88-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 91-year old male from Monongalia County, an 80-year old female from Hancock County, a 93-year old female from Wyoming County, a 76-year old female from Monongalia County, an 81-year old female from Berkeley County, an 85-year old female from Hancock County, and an 81-year old female from Harrison County.
“Each loss is a heartbreak to a family and to our state,” state DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said. “I urge you to remember your actions for safety result in saving the lives of your family, neighbors and friends.”
There have been 1,284 COVID-19 deaths in West Virginia.
There were 1,337 new confirmed cases reported Tuesday. Active cases are now at 24,264 with a daily positivity test rate of 10.45%.
Fifty-three of the state’s 55 counties were ‘red’ or ‘orange’ Tuesday representing a high rate of spread.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of December 29, 2020, there have been 1,468,110 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 82,773 total cases and 1,284 deaths. https://t.co/7Fb1cI0Kmm pic.twitter.com/49YLkeRQzF
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) December 29, 2020
Overall confirmed cases include: Barbour (710), Berkeley (6,045), Boone (1,031), Braxton (276), Brooke (1,357), Cabell (5,034), Calhoun (127), Clay (252), Doddridge (238), Fayette (1,689), Gilmer (386), Grant (748), Greenbrier (1,391), Hampshire (943), Hancock (1,801), Hardy (751), Harrison (2,844), Jackson (1,129), Jefferson (2,282), Kanawha (8,425), Lewis (486), Lincoln (729), Logan (1,598), Marion (1,725), Marshall (1,960), Mason (992), McDowell (932), Mercer (2,669), Mineral (2,067), Mingo (1,398), Monongalia (5,173), Monroe (613), Morgan (632), Nicholas (636), Ohio (2,452), Pendleton (283), Pleasants (556), Pocahontas (344), Preston (1,612), Putnam (2,898), Raleigh (2,609), Randolph (1,104), Ritchie (330), Roane (290), Summers (418), Taylor (667), Tucker (312), Tyler (346), Upshur (870), Wayne (1,656), Webster (143), Wetzel (671), Wirt (213), Wood (4,814), Wyoming (1,116).