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Active COVID-19 cases in West Virginia decline by 28% in last week

Brian Bergstrom
January 31, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Monday that 15,490 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 1,608 since Friday’s report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (151), Barbour (139), Lewis (82), Randolph (153) and Webster (63) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of nine active cases over the weekend.

Twenty additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 56-year old female from Mercer County, a 76-year old male from Jackson County, a 72-year old male from Ohio County, a 79-year old male from Jefferson County, a 54-year old male from Kanawha County, a 74-year old male from Harrison County, a 42-year old male from Roane County, an 86-year old male from Monongalia County, a 52-year old female from Jefferson County, a 74-year old male from Pleasants County, a 74-year old male from Kanawha County, a 61-year old female from Monongalia County, a 57-year old female from Berkeley County, a 74-year old male from Jefferson County, a 60-year old female from Randolph County, a 79-year old female from Mineral County, a 79-year old male from Marion County, a 48-year old female from Mineral County, a 92-year old male from Raleigh County, and a 67-year old male from Ohio County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of January 31, 2022, there are currently 15,490 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 20 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,763 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 1,070 residents are hospitalized with the virus (69% unvaccinated, 31% vaccinated), with 235 currently in intensive care (66% unvaccinated, 34% vaccinated) and 116 on a ventilator (85% unvaccinated, 15% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 17.46%.

A total of 950,929 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 53% of the state. Of those, 382,138 are fully vaccinated and have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (139), Berkeley (546), Boone (265), Braxton (56), Brooke (110), Cabell (990), Calhoun (40), Clay (57), Doddridge (69), Fayette (756), Gilmer (41), Grant (114), Greenbrier (418), Hampshire (139), Hancock (154), Hardy (103), Harrison (541), Jackson (83), Jefferson (269), Kanawha (1,862), Lewis (82), Lincoln (236), Logan (371), Marion (438), Marshall (225), Mason (310), McDowell (261), Mercer (688), Mineral (202), Mingo (275), Monongalia (700), Monroe (205), Morgan (84), Nicholas (299), Ohio (309), Pendleton (62), Pleasants (38), Pocahontas (22), Preston (217), Putnam (606), Raleigh (846), Randolph (153), Ritchie (79), Roane (82), Summers (139), Taylor (156), Tucker (19), Tyler (70), Upshur (151), Wayne (314), Webster (63), Wetzel (151), Wirt (37), Wood (563), Wyoming (285).