CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Recovered cases of COVID-19 outpaced new cases in numbers released by the state Department of Health and Human Resources Tuesday.
The updated dashboard shows 752 COVID cases marked as recovered while there have been 502 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.
Active cases are now at 6,733.
COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began grew to 4,770 after 13 deaths were added in Tuesday’s report. All of the new deaths came after reconciliation work with death certificates. Most of the deaths occurred in October and November but weren’t originally marked as COVID deaths. Those include a 52-year old male from Wayne County, an 87-year old male from Logan County, an 86-year old female from Calhoun County, a 99-year old female from Tucker County, a 79-year old female from Fayette County, a 47-year old female from Brooke County, a 60-year old female from Harrison County, a 65-year old male from Upshur County, a 60-year old male from Nicholas County, a 73-year old male from Marion County, a 73-year old female from Wetzel County, and an 85-year old male from Marshall County.
Hospitalizations increased to 528 in Tuesday’s report.
Gov. Jim Justice’s next media briefing is set for Wednesday.
DHHR reports as of November 23, 2021, there are currently 6,733 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 13 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 4,770 deaths attributed to COVID-19. https://t.co/38Cd1GRVzr pic.twitter.com/3M2a4OwMsj
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) November 23, 2021
Current active cases per county include Barbour (61), Berkeley (532), Boone (102), Braxton (40), Brooke (87), Cabell (254), Calhoun (40), Clay (24), Doddridge (18), Fayette (227), Gilmer (12), Grant (66), Greenbrier (66), Hampshire (122), Hancock (116), Hardy (80), Harrison (266), Jackson (64), Jefferson (216), Kanawha (450), Lewis (108), Lincoln (70), Logan (105), Marion (235), Marshall (152), Mason (112), McDowell (86), Mercer (305), Mineral (95), Mingo (138), Monongalia (246), Monroe (37), Morgan (81), Nicholas (163), Ohio (189), Pendleton (60), Pleasants (16), Pocahontas (19), Preston (159), Putnam (229), Raleigh (294), Randolph (98), Ritchie (27), Roane (45), Summers (33), Taylor (70), Tucker (18), Tyler (35), Upshur (93), Wayne (94), Webster (61), Wetzel (69), Wirt (24), Wood (276), Wyoming (48).