Just one-day after West Virginia recorded its 2,000th COVID-19-related death, the Department of Health and Human Resources announced that nine more residents of the Mountain State have succumbed to complications stemming from the virus.
Among those confirmed deceased on Saturday, January 30 are a 68-year-old Monongalia County woman, a 92-year-old Wayne County man, a 66-year-old Boone County man, a 78-year-old Wirt County man, a 67-year-old Grant County man, an 87-year-old Cabell County woman, a 67-year-old Mercer County woman, an 87-year-old Lincoln County woman and a 69-year-old Pleasants County man.
In all, 2,015 West Virginians have now lost their lives to COVID-19.
Currently, there are 21,807 active cases across the state, including the 873 new cases identified within the last 24 hours. In total, 120,340 cases of the virus have been identified in West Virginia since March 17 of last year. The daily positivity-rate is 5.54% and the cumulative positivity-rate remains steady at 5.60%. Thus far, 66,177 residents have received both courses of the vaccine and are now fully vaccinated against the virus.
With an infection rate of 45.04% and a percent positive of 8.35%, Pocahontas County remains designated as red on the DHHR’s color-coded County Alert System map. Greenbrier and Monroe Counties remain designated as orange, with infection rates of 38.74% and 48.98% and percent positives of 5.34% and 6.75%, respectively.
With an infection rate of 26.95% and a percent positive of 3.67%, Fayette County has been downgraded to the yellow designation on the color-coded map. Summers and Mercer Counties are both now designated as green, with infection rates of 19.32% and 22.61% and percent positives of 2.50% and 2.88%, respectively.
At present, there are 481 West Virginians hospitalized with Covid-19, including 132 of whom are being treated in the intensive care unit and 55 who are receiving assistance through ventilators. The W.Va. DHHR reports that 96,518 residents who had previously tested positive for the virus have since recovered.
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