PM SATURDAY: COVID-19 CASES ON RISE

(07/05/2020)
State health officials confirmed 64 new coronavirus cases Saturday evening in West Virginia.

We did not get the Saturday AM report.

The new cases raise the state’s total of active cases to 693, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. There are now 3,205 total cases in the state.

The daily positive test rate in the 5 p.m. update was 2.34% while the overall positive test rate was 1.75% for West Virginia.

The cases per county are as follows (case confirmed by lab test/probable case): Barbour (15/0), Berkeley (460/18), Boone (23/0), Braxton (3/0), Brooke (9/1), Cabell (147/6), Calhoun (2/0), Clay (10/0), Fayette (67/0), Gilmer (13/0), Grant (15/1), Greenbrier (63/0), Hampshire (42/0), Hancock (23/3), Hardy (44/1), Harrison (70/0), Jackson (143/0), Jefferson (236/5), Kanawha (327/9), Lewis (19/1), Lincoln (8/0), Logan (26/0), Marion (67/3), Marshall (41/1), Mason (20/0), McDowell (6/0), Mercer (48/0), Mineral (55/2), Mingo (20/3), Monongalia (216/14), Monroe (14/1), Morgan (19/1), Nicholas (13/1), Ohio (104/1), Pendleton (12/1), Pleasants (4/1), Pocahontas (30/1), Preston (70/16), Putnam (63/1), Raleigh (55/1), Randolph (167/2), Ritchie (2/0), Roane (11/0), Summers (2/0), Taylor (17/1), Tucker (6/0), Tyler (4/0), Upshur (20/1), Wayne (114/1), Wetzel (12/0), Wirt (4/0), Wood (111/8), Wyoming (7/0). There are now 35 hospitalizations, including 15 in intensive care and five people on ventilators. At least 2,418 West Virginians have recovered from the virus.