SUNDAY: 22 NEW WV CASES COVID-19 - Two New Deaths

(05/18/2020)
Health officials reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus in the Mountain State Sunday morning.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were confirmed Sunday evening in West Virginia, pushing the state’s death toll to 67.

A 69-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman, both from Fayette County, have died due to the virus, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.

West Virginia's cumulative percent of positive test results remained below 2% as the state's total of cases hit 1,492, according to the state Department of Health and Human Resources.

The positive case breakdown by county includes Barbour (7), Berkeley (210), Boone (9), Braxton (2), Brooke (3), Cabell (57), Calhoun (2), Clay (2), Fayette (38), Gilmer (8), Grant (6), Greenbrier (9), Hampshire (12), Hancock (12), Hardy (25), Harrison (35), Jackson (136), Jefferson (100), Kanawha (207), Lewis (5), Lincoln (5), Logan (15), Marion (48), Marshall (24), Mason (15), McDowell (6), Mercer (12), Mineral (28), Mingo (4), Monongalia (117), Monroe (6), Morgan (17), Nicholas (9), Ohio (38), Pendleton (5), Pleasants (2), Pocahontas (8), Preston (15), Putnam (29), Raleigh (10), Randolph (7), Ritchie (1), Roane (9), Summers (1), Taylor (8), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (6), Wayne (96), Wetzel (7), Wirt (3), Wood (47), Wyoming (2).

There were no new deaths reported in the 10 a.m. update. The state's death toll due to COVID-19 is at 65.