THURSDAY WV COVID-19 UPDATE: 118 NEW CASES

(08/07/2020)
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources officials reported 118 new cases of COVID-19 in the Mountain State Thursday.

That brings the total count to 2,277.

A member of Cabell Midland High School's football team has tested positive for COVID-19.

The state Department of Health and Human Resources reported Thursday that 20 residents at Princeton nursing home have tested positive for COVID-19 along with 24 staff members. Four residents have died.

As of 10 a.m., there have been 307,255 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 7,277 total cases and 124 deaths.

DHHR officials say 1,823 cases are currently active and 5,330 people have recovered.

According to data from DHHR, 123 patients are currently hospitalized. Forty-seven patients are in ICU, and 11 patients are on ventilators.

CASES PER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (647/28), Boone (95/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (60/1), Cabell (358/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (17/1), Doddridge (5/0), Fayette (137/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (96/1), Greenbrier (88/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (103/4), Hardy (56/1), Harrison (206/1), Jackson (160/0), Jefferson (288/6), Kanawha (863/13), Lewis (27/1), Lincoln (79/0), Logan (176/0), Marion (175/4), Marshall (125/3), Mason (53/0), McDowell (48/1), Mercer (174/0), Mineral (114/2), Mingo (154/2), Monongalia (913/16), Monroe (18/1), Morgan (25/1), Nicholas (34/1), Ohio (262/3), Pendleton (57/1), Pleasants (9/1), Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (101/22), Putnam (177/1), Raleigh (203/7), Randolph (203/3), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (14/0), Summers (7/0), Taylor (55/1), Tucker (11/0), Tyler (13/0), Upshur (36/3), Wayne (194/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (40/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (230/12), Wyoming (29/0).