CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Active COVID-19 cases dropped for the first time since July 23 in new numbers released Wednesday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
The agency’s dashboard reported 2,131 recovered cases in the daily update and 1,805 new cases dropping active cases from Tuesday’s 28,035 to Wednesday’s number of 27,674. A decrease of 361.
The DHHR also confirmed 35 new dates including a 62-year old male from Harrison County, a 74-year old male from Preston County, a 46-year old male from Upshur County, an 87-year old male from Mineral County, a 47-year old female from Cabell County, a 61-year old male from Berkeley County, a 71-year old female from Pleasants County, a 79-year old male from Harrison County, an 88-year old male from Mingo County, a 79-year old male from Randolph County, an 80-year old male from Tyler County, an 81-year old male from Mineral County, a 72-year old male from Harrison County, a 75-year old female from Cabell County, a 50-year old female from Kanawha County, a 69-year old male from Hancock County, a 47-year old male from Cabell County, a 73-year old female from Calhoun County, a 46-year old female from Harrison County, a 69-year old female from Mineral County, a 73-year old male from Jefferson County, a 29-year old male from Berkeley County, a 54-year old male from Kanawha County, a 58-year old female from Wirt County, a 58-year old female from Monroe County, a 44-year old male from Raleigh County, a 71-year old female from Monongalia County, a 58-year old male from Mingo County, a 55-year old male from Monongalia County, an 80-year old male from Kanawha County, a 58-year old male from Lewis County, a 67-year old female from Raleigh County, an 82-year old male from Kanawha County, a 77-year old male from Logan County, and an 87-year old female from Logan County.
Total deaths are now at 3,296.
The positivity test rate continues to be high. It was listed at 10.85% Wednesday.
Hospitalizations were at a pandemic high of 879.
Forty-three of the state’s 55 counties are in the high spread ‘red’ category on the daily alert map. Tucker County moved to the low spread category of ‘green’ on Wednesday’s map.
DHHR reports as of September 15, 2021, there have been 3,624,248 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 214,984 total cases and 3,296 total deaths. https://t.co/e4inwXEtaJ pic.twitter.com/PsoYRdLt7T
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) September 15, 2021
Overall confirmed cases per county include: Barbour (2,207), Berkeley (15,490), Boone (2,804), Braxton (1,538), Brooke (2,657), Cabell (12,223), Calhoun (730), Clay (946), Doddridge (910), Fayette (4,795), Gilmer (1,090), Grant (1,699), Greenbrier (3,964), Hampshire (2,464), Hancock (3,347), Hardy (2,012), Harrison (8,097), Jackson (2,932), Jefferson (5,740), Kanawha (19,943), Lewis (2,150), Lincoln (2,164), Logan (4,368), Marion (5,979), Marshall (4,473), Mason (2,906), McDowell (2,192), Mercer (6,879), Mineral (3,722), Mingo (3,698), Monongalia (10,976), Monroe (1,769), Morgan (1,626), Nicholas (2,721), Ohio (5,265), Pendleton (959), Pleasants (1,183), Pocahontas (904), Preston (3,735), Putnam (6,996), Raleigh (9,297), Randolph (4,171), Ritchie (1,077), Roane (1,011), Summers (1,122), Taylor (1,725), Tucker (804), Tyler (1,101), Upshur (3,188), Wayne (4,359), Webster (842), Wetzel (2,025), Wirt (636), Wood (10,468), Wyoming (2,905).