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Barbour County woman among five new COVID-19 deaths reported in West Virginia on Tuesday

Brian Bergstrom
January 25, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that 19,277cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 2,140 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (172), Barbour (99), Lewis (104), Randolph (320) and Webster (69) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of 37 active cases in the last 24 hours.

Five additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 53-year old male from Nicholas County, a 54-year old male from Preston County, an 80-year old female from Jefferson County, a 63-year old female from Barbour County, and an 86-year old female from Preston County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of January 25, 2022, there are currently 19,277 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been five deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,650 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 976 residents are hospitalized with the virus (66% unvaccinated, 34% vaccinated), with 223 currently in intensive care (80% unvaccinated, 20% vaccinated) and 104 on a ventilator (92% unvaccinated, 8% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 24.27%.

A total of 947,701 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 53% of the state. Of those, 375,042 have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (99), Berkeley (838), Boone (345), Braxton (83), Brooke (121), Cabell (1,245), Calhoun (59), Clay (80), Doddridge (90), Fayette (710), Gilmer (83), Grant (129), Greenbrier (361), Hampshire (158), Hancock (185), Hardy (158), Harrison (642), Jackson (120), Jefferson (372), Kanawha (2,576), Lewis (104), Lincoln (234), Logan (416), Marion (552), Marshall (286), Mason (301), McDowell (190), Mercer (703), Mineral (263), Mingo (275), Monongalia (1,070), Monroe (244), Morgan (121), Nicholas (362), Ohio (310), Pendleton (70), Pleasants (46), Pocahontas (16), Preston (298), Putnam (736), Raleigh (1,067), Randolph (320), Ritchie (81), Roane (150), Summers (168), Taylor (179), Tucker (10), Tyler (109), Upshur (172), Wayne (473), Webster (69), Wetzel (156), Wirt (73), Wood (767), Wyoming (432).