Following the Coronavirus

Marshall County Reports 60th Death Related to COVID-19

By From Staff Reports 2 min read
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

The Marshall County Health Department reported on Sunday night the county's 60th COVID-19-related death since the start of the pandemic.

The department announced one new death Sunday night, that of an 84-year-old man who was hospitalized at the time of his passing. It also reported five new confirmed COVID cases and six new probable cases.

That brings Marshall County's totals to 2,240 confirmed cases, 599 probable cases, seven hospitalizations and 60 associated deaths.

The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported 13 new positive COVID-19 cases in the county between Saturday and Sunday. That brought the county's totals to 3,628 cases and 64 deaths since the pandemic began.

The six northernmost West Virginia counties along the Ohio River -- Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler -- all were orange or better on Sunday's Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map. Marshall and Wetzel counties both were red on Saturday's map, but rebounded on the Sunday edition.

That erases any doubt whether those counties can allow their high school students to return to in-person learning. State guidelines kept high school students on remote learning if their respective counties were red on the map.

Five of the six counties were orange, a step above red, on Sunday's map. Brooke County was yellow, the second-safest category.

The total number of red counties kept shrinking on Sunday's map. Only six -- Wayne, Mingo, Boone, Hardy, Hampshire and Berkeley -- were in the highest-risk category. Twenty-three were orange, 16 were gold, six were yellow and four were green.

Hancock County had an infection rate of 22.31 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 5.88 on Sunday's map. Brooke County had an infection rate of 22.14 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.81.

Ohio County had an infection rate of 28.29 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 5.08. Marshall County had an infection rate of 40.71 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 7.44.

Wetzel County had an infection rate of 36.51 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 7.83. Tyler County had an infection rate of 34.09 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 5.81.

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