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Marshall County fell back to "red," the highest-risk designation, while Brooke and Hancock counties were in "gold" on Sunday's West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources daily COVID-19 alert map. Ohio County remained in "orange," the map's second-highest risk designation.
Marshall County's infection rate leaped to 97.32 positive cases per 100,000 residents on Sunday's map, up from 77.67 the day before, and a percent positivity of 9.69, up from 7.73 the day before. The Marshall County Health Department had not updated its daily COVID numbers on its Facebook page as of 11:30 p.m. Sunday, but did post on that page that it did suspect large numbers of people coming to the department for testing starting Monday.
The department suggested that those wanting tests should register online at wv.getmycovidresult.com and bring the QR code in either a printout or on a smartphone. That could speed up both the rate of testing and make tracking online results easier.
Ohio County had an infection rate of 77.27 positive cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 7.00. The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported 65 new positive cases Sunday, for a total of 1,641 cases and 18 deaths.
Brooke County had an infection rate of 65.77 positive cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positive of 4.44, while Hancock County had an infection rate of 82.31 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 4.38.
Hancock and Brooke will hope those numbers hold through the week and stay there for next Saturday's West Virginia Department of Education school openings map. Hancock was "gold" on this past Saturday's map, which allowed the county to resume in-person learning, while Brooke and Ohio were "orange" and Marshall was "red," which kept those counties on remote learning.