The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reports that there have been 37 more COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours.
Among those confirmed deceased are an 81-year-old Wood County woman, a 75-year-old Berkeley County man, a 70-year-old Brooke County woman, a 77-year-old Wood County woman, a 96-year-old Kanawha County woman, a 69-year-old Berkeley County man, a 72-year-old Pendleton County woman, an 87-year-old Wood County woman, a 60-year-old Hancock County man, a 54-year-old Kanawha County man, an 80-year-old Raleigh County man, a 74-year-old Boone County woman, an 89-year-old Cabell County man, a 72-year-old Logan County woman, an 88-year-old Ohio County man, a 78-year-old Mason County woman, a 58-year-old Boone County man, a 68-year-old Hancock County man, an 81-year-old Kanawha County man, a 73-year-old Pleasants County man, a 79-year-old Mineral County woman, a 73-year-old Ritchie County woman, a 77-year-old Hancock County man, an 82-year-old Cabell County woman, a 74-year-old Hardy County woman, an 86-year-old Hampshire County woman, a 77-year-old Pleasants County man, a 68-year-old Hancock County man, a 76-year-old Upshur County woman, a 77-year-old Kanawha County woman, a 45-year-old Wayne County woman, a 93-year-old Hancock County woman, a 73-year-old Lewis County woman, an 83-year-old Berkeley County woman, a 67-year-old Kanawha County man, a 71-year-old Marion County woman and a 96-year-old Summers County man.
The total number of deaths in West Virginia due to complications stemming from COVID-19 has now reached 1,671.
There have been an additional 1,184 cases of COVID-19 identified on Tuesday, Jan. 12, bringing the state’s number of active cases to 27,982. The daily positivity-rate is 9.09% and the cumulative positivity-rate is 5.44%. The W.Va. DHHR reports that 16,434 residents have now received both rounds of injections, and are therefore fully vaccinated against the virus.
At present, 765 West Virginians are hospitalized with COVID-19, 204 of whom are being treated in the ICU with 101 receiving assistance through ventilators. The W.Va. DHHR reports that 74,739 residents who had previously tested positive for the virus have since recovered.
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