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The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Saturday that 17 new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in the Mountain State.
No additional deaths were reported.
“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reports as of 5 p.m. on June 6, 2020, there have been 110,609 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 2,136 total cases and 84 deaths,” according to a press release.
New cases were reported Saturday in Berkeley, Cabell, Hampshire, Jefferson, Kanawha, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Putnam, Tucker and Wood counties.
About 603 West Virginia cases remain active, according DHHR data. Of the cases that are no longer active, 1,449 people have recovered and 84 have died, a mortality rate of about 5.5 percent.
CASES PER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case): Barbour (8/0), Berkeley (329/14), Boone (11/0), Braxton (2/0), Brooke (4/1), Cabell (68/2), Calhoun (2/0), Clay (7/0), Fayette (54/0), Gilmer (10/0), Grant (11/1), Greenbrier (9/0), Hampshire (34/0), Hancock (18/2), Hardy (40/0), Harrison (39/1), Jackson (138/0), Jefferson (199/5), Kanawha (233/3), Lewis (8/0), Lincoln (5/0), Logan (20/0), Marion (51/2), Marshall (30/1), Mason (15/0), McDowell (6/0), Mercer (13/0), Mineral (49/2), Mingo (6/2), Monongalia (127/13), Monroe (7/1), Morgan (18/1), Nicholas (8/0), Ohio (48/0), Pendleton (11/2), Pleasants (3/1), Pocahontas (20/1), Preston (19/5), Putnam (38/1), Raleigh (16/1), Randolph (132/0), Ritchie (1/0), Roane (9/0), Summers (1/0), Taylor (8/1), Tucker (6/0), Tyler (3/0), Upshur (6/1), Wayne (103/0), Wetzel (9/0), Wirt (4/0), Wood (51/3), Wyoming (2/0).
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