THIRTY CASES COVID-19 KANAWHA NURSING HOME, ONE DEATH

(08/17/2020)

The health officer and executive director for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department said the 25th known person to die in Kanawha County because of COVID-19 this weekend was a nursing home resident in Sissonville. As of Monday morning, Dr. Sherri Young said 26 residents at Cedar Ridge Center, a Genesis Healthcare nursing home facility, had tested positive for COVID-19 along with six staff members and two contractors. She said there was also a separate, smaller outbreak at a site in Marmet. Those with the nursing home were working on contact tracing and taking steps to address the outbreak in residents and employees, according to Dr. Young. Overall, Dr. Young said Kanawha County had 1,117 positive cases of COVID-19 cases dating back to March. Numbers showed 321 of those cases were considered active.

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