CHARLESTON — COVID-19 cases in West Virginia continued a slow and steady rise Friday as state officials doubled down on pleas for residents to take the virus seriously. According to the Department of Health and Human Resources, there are 6,135 active COVID-19 cases in the state, an 18.5 ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Breaching an 8 percent positivity rate reported Friday morning, Marshall County tipped over into the red on the COVID-19 map, forcing the closure of schools through next week. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ COVID-19 map reported that Marshall County reached an 8.01 percent positivity, along with a 72.99 infection rate, with both indicators firmly in the red. The rise in both metrics was a jump from the previous day, which recorded an infection rate of 58.49 and 6.44 percent positivity, a sharp increase for both figures that had been ...
WHEELING — Wheeling Middle School students will learn remotely next week after the building was closed due to staffing issues, Ohio County Schools officials said Friday. The school district decided to wait until later Saturday — when revised state maps of coronavirus risk assessments are released — to see if they must close the district as a whole and have all students learning remotely. Ohio County Schools is listed as "yellow" on the West Virginia Department of Education’s map, a designation that permits in-school classes to take place. There has been a strong increase in ...
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court this morning ordered that the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission State Soccer Tournament proceed as scheduled, vacating a temporary restraining order entered Thursday by an Eastern Panhandle judge. Wheeling Park was one of the ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Two cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in two days at separate Marshall County schools, though the cases were said to come from community spread — not from spread among staff or students. On Wednesday, Marshall County Schools identified one case reported at Center ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Every county in Ohio has a high incidence of coronavirus spread, according to Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul. He heard the news from state officials Thursday, along with reports of an increasing caseload across Belmont County. Jefferson County shifted to Level 3, or red, on the Ohio Public Health Advisory System’s color-coded map, which is updated weekly on Thursdays. Belmont and Harrison counties remained at Level 2, or orange. Monroe County is at Level 1, or yellow -- one of only two counties in the state still in that lowest-risk category, ...
