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A 25-year-old female from Berkeley County has died of COVID-19, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Sunday.
The DHHR also announced 15 new cases of COVID-19 in the state on Sunday.
“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reports as of 5 p.m. on May 10, 2020, there have been 62,885 laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 1,362 positive, 61,523 negative and 54 deaths,” according to the DHHR.
The cumulative positive rate remained 2.2 percent. The daily rate of positive cases reported Sunday was 1.1 percent.
About 38 percent of the West Virginia cases remain active, according DHHR data. Of the cases that are no longer active, 775 people have recovered and 54 have died, a mortality rate of about 6.5 percent.
New cases were reported Sunday in Berkeley, Boone, Fayette, Hampshire, Kanawha, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia and Ohio counties.
CONFIRMED CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (7), Berkeley (189), Boone (9), Braxton (2), Brooke (3), Cabell (52), Clay (2), Fayette (35), Gilmer (8), Grant (3), Greenbrier (8), Hampshire (9), Hancock (12), Hardy (16), Harrison (33), Jackson (136), Jefferson (88), Kanawha (183), Lewis (4), Lincoln (5), Logan (13), Marion (46), Marshall (22), Mason (13), McDowell (6), Mercer (11), Mineral (23), Mingo (2), Monongalia (114), Monroe (6), Morgan (16), Nicholas (8), Ohio (38), Pendleton (5), Pleasants (2), Pocahontas (2), Preston (14), Putnam (27), Raleigh (9), Randolph (5), Ritchie (1), Roane (8), Summers (1), Taylor (8), Tucker (4), Tyler (3), Upshur (5), Wayne (93), Wetzel (6), Wirt (3), Wood (43), Wyoming (1).
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