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More than 600 COVID-19 cases now active in Upshur County

Brian Bergstrom
September 16, 2021

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Thursday that 28,773 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s an increase of 1,099 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (602), Barbour (256), Lewis (262), Randolph (361) and Webster (56) counties. In Upshur County, that’s an increase of 30 active cases in the last 24 hours.

Seventeen additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 53-year old female from Mercer County, an 84-year old male from Wood County, a 65-year old male from Wood County, a 52-year old male from Ritchie County, a 79-year old female from Raleigh County, a 91-year old female from Preston County, a 56-year old female from Wetzel County, a 70-year old male from Kanawha County, a 52-year old male from Kanawha County, a 45-year old male from Greenbrier County, an 89-year old male from Wetzel County, a 77-year old male from Marion County, a 67-year old female from Preston County, a 46-year old male from Kanawha County, an 89-year old female from Raleigh County, a 33-year old female from Kanawha County, and a 56-year old female from Harrison County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of September 16, 2021, there have been 3,644,765 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 217,119 total cases and 3,313 deaths,” according to a press release.

More than 893 residents are hospitalized with the virus (84% unvaccinated, 16% vaccinated), with 275 currently in intensive care (91% unvaccinated, 9% vaccinated) and 160 on a ventilator (93% unvaccinated, 7% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 10.37%.

A total of 934,005 people have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, meaning they have received both doses of the vaccine, the DHHR said. That’s about 52% of the state.

TOTAL CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (2,217), Berkeley (15,581), Boone (2,840), Braxton (1,574), Brooke (2,675), Cabell (12,343), Calhoun (741), Clay (953), Doddridge (918), Fayette (4,831), Gilmer (1,106), Grant (1,727), Greenbrier (3,992), Hampshire (2,500), Hancock (3,370), Hardy (2,026), Harrison (8,205), Jackson (2,961), Jefferson (5,765), Kanawha (20,112), Lewis (2,187), Lincoln (2,187), Logan (4,422), Marion (6,035), Marshall (4,528), Mason (2,930), McDowell (2,223), Mercer (6,959), Mineral (3,763), Mingo (3,722), Monongalia (11,012), Monroe (1,792), Morgan (1,653), Nicholas (2,751), Ohio (5,297), Pendleton (966), Pleasants (1,193), Pocahontas (919), Preston (3,800), Putnam (7,062), Raleigh (9,388), Randolph (4,239), Ritchie (1,112), Roane (1,034), Summers (1,150), Taylor (1,747), Tucker (819), Tyler (1,119), Upshur (3,228), Wayne (4,404), Webster (851), Wetzel (2,055), Wirt (637), Wood (10,556), Wyoming (2,942).