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Number of active COVID-19 cases in West Virginia drops below 6,000 on Tuesday

Brian Bergstrom
November 9, 2021

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that 5,937 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 381 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (114), Barbour (46), Lewis (57), Randolph (79) and Webster (24) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of 20 active cases in the last 24 hours.

Twenty additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR, including a 66-year old male from Ohio County, a 54-year old female from Raleigh County, and a 68-year old male from Braxton County; as well as new deaths reported as a result of the Bureau for Public Health’s continuing data reconciliation with the official death certificate are a 55-year old male from Barbour County, a 59-year old male from Tyler County, a 72-year old female from Fayette County, a 76-year old male from Raleigh County, an 87-year old female from Kanawha County, a 71-year old female from Preston County, a 68-year old male from Raleigh County, a 72-year old female from Kanawha County, a 76-year old male from Morgan County, a 70-year old male from Harrison County, an 80-year old female from Roane County, a 78-year old female from Grant County, an 87-year old female from Berkeley County, an 87-year old female from Preston County, an 82-year old male from Mason County, a 91-year old male from Ohio County, and a 68-year old male from Wyoming County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of November 9, 2021, there are currently 5,937 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 20 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 4,568 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 544 residents are hospitalized with the virus (76% unvaccinated, 24% vaccinated), with 190 currently in intensive care (85% unvaccinated, 15% vaccinated) and 94 on a ventilator (86% unvaccinated, 14% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 16.23%.

A total of 926,819 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.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (46), Berkeley (307), Boone (92), Braxton (39), Brooke (50), Cabell (256), Calhoun (26), Clay (31), Doddridge (8), Fayette (123), Gilmer (28), Grant (63), Greenbrier (84), Hampshire (71), Hancock (110), Hardy (71), Harrison (233), Jackson (70), Jefferson (102), Kanawha (489), Lewis (57), Lincoln (150), Logan (80), Marion (217), Marshall (83), Mason (63), McDowell (53), Mercer (239), Mineral (95), Mingo (57), Monongalia (226), Monroe (41), Morgan (48), Nicholas (155), Ohio (76), Pendleton (14), Pleasants (12), Pocahontas (16), Preston (119), Putnam (218), Raleigh (198), Randolph (79), Ritchie (16), Roane (98), Summers (26), Taylor (104), Tucker (17), Tyler (17), Upshur (114), Wayne (78), Webster (24), Wetzel (52), Wirt (8), Wood (198), Wyoming (83).