| The state Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed Sunday evening the seventh and eighth deaths in West Virginia linked to COVID-19.
As reported Saturday, a 25-year-old Logan County man died Saturday and an 80-year-old woman, a resident of Sundale Nursing Home in Morgantown died Friday. The DHHR confirmed the sixth death Saturday, an elderly Wayne County resident with underlying medical conditions.
The DHHRâs second report Sunday put confirmed coronavirus cases in West Virginia at 611. There have been 16,257 residents tested in the Mountain State. The stateâs positive test rate is now at 3.75 percent.
The counties and the positive cases listed Sunday evening by the DHHR include:
Barbour (4), Berkeley (92), Boone (1), Braxton (1), Brooke (3), Cabell (23), Fayette (2), Grant (1), Greenbrier (3), Hampshire (4), Hancock (7), Hardy (2), Harrison (28), Jackson (27), Jefferson (49), Kanawha (86), Lewis (2), Logan (8), Marion (34), Marshall (6), Mason (8), McDowell (5), Mercer (8), Mineral (4), Mingo (1), Monongalia (83), Monroe (1), Morgan (6), Nicholas (2), Ohio (25), Pendleton (1), Pleasants (1), Preston (6), Putnam (11), Raleigh (5), Randolph (4), Roane (2), Summers (1), Taylor (3), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (3), Wayne (17), Wetzel (3), Wirt (2), Wood (18), Wyoming (1) |
