With the addition of the 5,210 new cases identified within the last 72 hours, West Virginia has now recorded 101,212 total cases of COVID-19 since March 17 of last year. The W.Va. Department of Health and Human Resources also reports that an additional 64 deaths have occurred in that same three-day period.
Among those confirmed deceased are a 54-year-old Mason County man, a 86-year-old Gilmer County man, a 74-year-old Preston County woman, a 70-year-old Brooke County woman, a 79-year-old Brooke County man, a 75-year-old Hampshire County man, a 68-year-old Ohio County man, an 83-year-old Kanawha County woman, an 81-year-old Wood County man, an 86-year-old Logan County woman, a 51-year-old Logan County man, a 92-year-old Putnam County woman, a 71-year-old Brooke County man, an 87-year-old Wood County man, an 89-year-old Marshall County man, a 53-year-old Cabell County woman, an 89-year-old Brooke County woman, a 75-year-old Logan County woman, an 86-year-old Hancock County woman, a 95-year-old Hampshire County woman, a 49-year-old Raleigh County man, an 87-year-old Mercer County woman, a 99-year-old Greenbrier County man, a 92-year-old Ohio County woman, an 82-year-old Mercer County woman, a 100-year-old Brooke County woman, an 84-year-old Mineral County man, a 75-year-old Harrison County man, an 89-year-old Cabell County woman, a 92-year-old Kanawha County man, a 94-year-old Brooke County woman, an 81-year-old Brooke County woman, a 63-year-old Putnam County woman, an 83-year-old Greenbrier County man, an 84-year-old Gilmer County woman, a 92-year-old Brooke County man, a 75-year-old Mason County man, a 91-year-old Upshur County man, an 89-year-old Cabell County woman, a 93-year-old Ohio County woman, a 50-year-old Berkeley County man, a 78-year-old Upshur County man, an 86-year-old Berkeley County man, an 83-year-old Monongalia County woman, a 67-year-old Preston County man, a 90-year-old Hancock County woman, a 69-year-old Ohio County man, a 90-year-old Preston County woman, a 72-year-old Marshall County man, an 85-year-old Ohio County man, a 69-year-old Kanawha County woman, a 77-year-old Hardy County man, an 89-year-old Upshur County man, a 52-year-old Logan County man, a 74-year-old Raleigh County woman, an 84-year-old Kanawha County man, an 89-year-old Harrison County man, a 66-year-old Boone County man, an 81-year-old Marion County woman, a 70-year-old McDowell County man, a 77-year-old Hampshire County man, an 80-year-old Upshur County man and a 78-year-old Boone County man.
The total number of West Virginians who have died due to complications of COVID-19 has now reached 1,582.
As of Sunday, January 10, 1,643,013 laboratory tests have been performed in the Mountain State, including the 31,754 that have been completed since Friday. The state’s seven-day testing average is now 14,354 tests per day. The daily positivity-rate on Sunday is 8.56% and the cumulative positivity-rate is 5.35%. West Virginia has received 106,440 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, 90,645 of which have been administered thus far.
In Greenbrier County, active outbreaks have been reported at the Greenbrier Health Care Center, the Lewisburg Center (Stonerise Lewisburg) and Meadow Garden (Stonerise Rainelle). With an infection rate of 84.08% and a percent positive of 8.78%, Greenbrier County remains designated as red on the daily color-coded county alert map.
In Monroe County, an outbreak remains active at the Springfield Center (Stonerise Lindside). With an infection rate of 80.17% and a percent positive of 8.83%, Monroe County is also designated as red on the color-coded county alert map. And with an infection rate of 70.16% and a percent positive of 12.96%, Pocahontas County is still designated as red, as well.
At present, there are 760 West Virginians hospitalized with COVID-19. This is down from the 805 reported by the West Virginia Daily News seven-days ago. The 214 intensive care-patients are up from last week’s 202, and there are 99 individuals currently being assisted through the use of ventilators. The W.Va DHHR reports that 70,382 of those who had previously been infected with the virus have now recovered.
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