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TUESDAY WV COVID-19 REPORT - CASES CLIMBING IN MOUNTAIN STATE - Calhoun Has Four New Cases |
| (07/28/2021) |
| The Mountain State is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases, with 1,656 cases currently active. That number has almost doubled since West Virginia reached a low of 882 active cases on July 9, 2021. Calhoun has four new cases this week. According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, 189 new cases of the virus have been confirmed since Monday, bringing the state’s total to 166,297 cases since the pandemic began. No additional deaths related to the virus have been reported in the past 24 hours. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state is 2,936. West Virginia appears to have hit a stone wall with vaccinations. Health officials are also reporting a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations with 111 West Virginians currently hospitalized with the virus. Of those patients, 47 are in the ICU and 19 are on ventilators. Cases of the Delta variant have also increased, with the number rising to 43 cases, according to the WV DHHR. The state is also reporting 2,457 cases of the U.K. Variant, eight cases of the South African Variant and 22 cases of the Brazilian Variant. The state has received a total of 3,104,392 confirmatory lab results for COVID-19 with a current daily percent positivity rate of 6.17% and a cumulative rate of 4.94%. As of Tuesday, July 27, the WV DHHR says 67.8% of eligible West Virginians have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 56.2% of those eligible have been fully vaccinated against the virus. Confirmed COVID-19 cases per county include: Barbour (1,534), Berkeley (13,019), Boone (2,200), Braxton (1,047), Brooke (2,266), Cabell (9,037), Calhoun (404), Clay (544), Doddridge (652), Fayette (3,616), Gilmer (893), Grant (1,320), Greenbrier (2,921), Hampshire (1,937), Hancock (2,868), Hardy (1,591), Harrison (6,315), Jackson (2,291), Jefferson (4,849), Kanawha (15,649), Lewis (1,344), Lincoln (1,615), Logan (3,328), Marion (4,737), Marshall (3,582), Mason (2,115), McDowell (1,658), Mercer (5,269), Mineral (3,008), Mingo (2,806), Monongalia (9,487), Monroe (1,236), Morgan (1,265), Nicholas (1,947), Ohio (4,367), Pendleton (726), Pleasants (963), Pocahontas (684), Preston (2,975), Putnam (5,438), Raleigh (7,152), Randolph (2,884), Ritchie (772), Roane (671), Summers (870), Taylor (1,314), Tucker (549), Tyler (757), Upshur (2,018), Wayne (3,219), Webster (589), Wetzel (1,410), Wirt (468), Wood (8,026), Wyoming (2,095). |
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