Workers Report
PARKERSBURG — One other 10 deaths from COVID-19, together with a 57-year-old man from Wooden County, have been confirmed in West Virginia, the Division of Well being and Human Sources reported on Tuesday.
Along with the Wooden County resident, the state has confirmed the deaths of a 42-year-old man from Taylor County, a 56-year-old girl from Nicholas County, a 68-year-old girl from Raleigh County, a 78-year-old man from Cabell County, a 71-year-old girl from Cabell County, a 65-year-old man from McDowell County, an 85-year-old man from Kanawha County, a 71-year-old man from Summers County and a 66-year-old man from Upshur County.
The state has reported 361 deaths to this point in Wooden County.
Twenty deaths statewide have been reported this week. Ten additionally have been reported on Monday.
The state’s demise rely as of Tuesday was 7,436 for the reason that pandemic started in March 2020.
“We’re saddened by the lack of extra West Virginians and ship our deepest sympathies,” DHHR Secretary Invoice J. Crouch mentioned. “Let’s assist forestall additional deaths by staying present on COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.”
Statewide lively circumstances on Tuesday have been 1,028, a drop of almost 100 from Monday when 1,125 circumstances have been reported. Lively circumstances usually have been trending downward.
Solely seven counties are yellow on the County Alert System map. All different counties are inexperienced, the bottom stage based mostly on an infection charges. Yellow is the second lowest.
The yellow counties are Tyler, Harrison, Taylor, Barbour, Pendleton, Pocahontas and Wyoming.
Classification on the map is predicated on the decrease of two measurements, an infection fee and p.c positivity. In Wooden and Wirt counties, the p.c positivity and an infection fee are within the yellow zone, respectively.
Lively circumstances in native counties on Tuesday (Monday) have been: Calhoun, 2 (3); Doddridge, 3 (4); Gilmer, 4 (4); Jackson, 7 (4); Pleasants, 2 (1); Ritchie, 2 (1); Roane, 6 (5); Tyler, 6 (6); Wetzel, 4 (6); Wirt, 1 (1); and Wooden, 49 (56).
The DHHR reported 197 folks statewide are within the hospital with COVID, with 30 in an intensive care unit and 12 on a ventilator. Two pediatric circumstances with one on a ventilator have been reported.
