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COVID-19 numbers keep showing signs of improvement in the Northern Panhandle, as Brooke County was in gold on Wednesday’s COVID alert map from the Department of Health and Human Resources.
For a county to reach gold, the middle category of the five on the color-coded map, it must have an infection rate between 10 and 14.9 cases per 100,000 residents or a percent positivity between 4 and 5. The county’s color is based on the lower of the two metrics.
Brooke went gold with a percent positivity of 4.59. It also has an infection rate of 24.74.
Hancock and Ohio counties both were orange, the second-highest risk category, while Marshall county remained in red, the highest-risk category.