CHARLESTON, W.Va. – -The state Department of Health and Human Resources reported a pandemic-high of COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the state Wednesday.
The 797 patients breaks the previous hospitalization record of 781 which came on Dec. 16. There are 209 patients in ICU with 93 patients on ventilators.
Overall deaths from COVID-19 in West Virginia increased to 1,318 in numbers released Wednesday.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of December 30, 2020, there have been 1,479,263 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 84,225 total cases and 1,318 deaths. https://t.co/2qqbowdT6Z pic.twitter.com/jv54HhRZrU
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) December 30, 2020
The agency confirmed 34 new deaths in Wednesday’s report including an 87-year old male from Mason County, a 78-year old male from Hancock County, a 71-year old female from Hancock County, 90-year old female from Preston County, an 82-year old female from Cabell County, a 93-year old male from Ohio County, a 62-year old female from Hancock County, a 74-year old female from Fayette County, an 88-year old male from Lewis County, a 77-year old female from Wyoming County, a 61-year old female from McDowell County, a 93-year old male from Preston County, an 81-year old female from Hancock County, a 71-year old female from Ohio County, an 81-year old female from Boone County, an 85-year old female from Kanawha County, a 72-year old male from Raleigh County, a 33-year old female from Summers County, a 92-year old male from Kanawha County, an 86-year old female from Brooke County, a 74-year old female from Kanawha County, an 88-year old male from Logan County, a 76-year old male from Logan County, an 81-year old male from Cabell County, a 79-year old male from Mercer County, an 81-year old female from Brooke County, an 82-year old male from Hardy County, a 52-year old female from Kanawha County, a 63-year old male from Kanawha County, a 95-year old female from Monongalia County, an 84-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 91-year old female from Jefferson County, a 91-year old female from Ohio, and a 46-year old male from Kanawha County.
“The toll this virus has taken on our state also weighs heavily on our medical providers,” state DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch said. “As we remember each life and each family, we also remember those fighting to save them.”
There are 1,452 new COVID-19 cases statewide. The state’s daily positivity test rate is at 11.68%. The DHHR reports 24,433 active cases.
According to the DHHR dashboard, the state has received 86,800 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines and administered 37,862 vaccinations.
Fifty-four of the state’s 55 counties are either ‘red’ or ‘orange’ on the COVID-19 daily alert map. Calhoun County is ‘green.’
Overall positive cases per county include: Barbour (744), Berkeley (6,202), Boone (1,053), Braxton (285), Brooke (1,387), Cabell (5,111), Calhoun (128), Clay (258), Doddridge (240), Fayette (1,695), Gilmer (391), Grant (755), Greenbrier (1,436), Hampshire (966), Hancock (1,821), Hardy (761), Harrison (2,898), Jackson (1,142), Jefferson (2,324), Kanawha (8,506), Lewis (516), Lincoln (733), Logan (1,630), Marion (1,768), Marshall (2,027), Mason (1,014), McDowell (952), Mercer (2,713), Mineral (2,085), Mingo (1,417), Monongalia (5,269), Monroe (618), Morgan (637), Nicholas (645), Ohio (2,480), Pendleton (284), Pleasants (564), Pocahontas (351), Preston (1,635), Putnam (2,925), Raleigh (2,655), Randolph (1,131), Ritchie (339), Roane (295), Summers (428), Taylor (678), Tucker (321), Tyler (353), Upshur (900), Wayne (1,682), Webster (146), Wetzel (689), Wirt (216), Wood (4,871), Wyoming (1,155)