The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has recorded 1,636 new cases and 32 additional COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours. The 1,636 cases identified on Wednesday, Dec. 16 is now the state’s single-day record for new cases.
Among those confirmed deceased are a 98-year-old Barbour County woman, a 78-year-old Barbour County man, an 81-year-old Monongalia County man, a 92-year-old Brooke County woman, a 105-year-old Jefferson County woman, a 57-year-old Ohio County woman, a 70-year-old Marshall County woman, a 84-year-old Boone County man, a 92-year-old Ohio County woman, an 85-year-old Preston County man, an 89-year-old Marshall County woman, a 100-year-old Boone County woman, a 74-year-old Wood County woman, a 92-year-old Brooke County woman, an 81-year-old Brooke County man, an 80-year-old Marshall County man, an 80-year-old Marshall County man, a 75-year-old Hardy County woman, a 76-year-old Mercer County man, a 71-year-old Lewis County man, an 85-year-old Preston County woman, a 92-year-old Brooke County woman, a 76-year-old Mercer County man, a 59-year-old Harrison County woman, a 66-year-old Wood County woman, a 61-year-old Wood County man, a 76-year-old Tucker County man, a 60-year-old Barbour County woman, a 93-year-old Kanawha County woman, a 74-year-old Monongalia County man, a 90-year-old Raleigh County woman, an 83-year-old Raleigh County woman and an 81-year-old Raleigh County man.
All together, 1,071 West Virginians have now died due to complications stemming from COVID-19.
There have been 56,877 confirmed, and 11,608 probable cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia since the onset of the pandemic, 21,832 of which are currently active. The state’s daily positivity-rate is 8.13% and the cumulative positivity-rate is 4.23%.
Greenbrier County has been downgraded once more to the orange designation. However, the margin is slim. The infection rate in Greenbrier County is 102.21% and the percent positive is 7.79%. Summers County has been upgraded to the yellow designation. Their infection rate is 31.29% and their percent positive is 3.07%. McDowell is now the only county in West Virginia designated as green.
At present, there are 781 West Virginians hospitalized with COVID-19, 206 of whom are receiving care in the ICU, and 84 are being treated with ventilators. According to the W.Va. DHHR, 45,582 individuals who were previously infected with the virus have since recovered.
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