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West Virginia reports 2,049 active COVID cases, 46 new deaths on Thursday

Brian Bergstrom
March 3, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Thursday that 2,049 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 94 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (50), Barbour (25), Lewis (12), Randolph (28) and Webster (18) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of five active cases in the last 24 hours.

Forty-six additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 60-year old female from Kanawha County, a 78-year old male from Doddridge County, an 82-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 97-year old male from Kanawha County, an 81-year old female from Marion County, a 73-year old female from Kanawha County, a 39-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 71-year old male from Jackson County, an 80-year old male from Mason County, a 73-year old female from Harrison County, a 64-year old male from Taylor County, are a 69-year old female from Wyoming County, a 68-year old male from Monongalia County, a 70-year old female from Cabell County, a 77-year old male from Ohio County, a 77-year old male from Boone County, an 82-year old female from Harrison County, an 84-year old male from Monongalia County, a 68-year old female from Raleigh County, an 83-year old male from Wayne County, a 61-year old male from Brooke County, an 80-year old female from Wayne County, an 82-year old female from Jefferson County, a 60-year old male from Boone County, a 59-year old male from Wetzel County, a 76-year old female from Marshall County, a 74-year old female from Morgan County, a 65-year old female from Fayette County, an 86-year old male from Jefferson County, a 66-year old female from Kanawha County, an 83-year old female from Mercer County, an 83-year old male from Randolph County, a 93-year old female from Harrison County, a 79-year old female from Marion County, an 89-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 69-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 95-year old male from Raleigh County, a 77-year old male from Wayne County, a 73-year old female from Summers County, a 48-year old female from Wayne County, a 42-year old male from Mingo County, a 70-year old female from Kanawha County, a 72-year old male from Lincoln County, a 78-year old female from Putnam County, a 74-year old male from Wyoming County, and an 85-year old male from Hancock County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of March 3, 2022, there are currently 2,049 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 46 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 6,427 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 444 residents are hospitalized with the virus (62% unvaccinated, 38% vaccinated), with 108 currently in intensive care (74% unvaccinated, 26% vaccinated) and 60 on a ventilator (78% unvaccinated, 22% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 6.87%.

A total of 962,701 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 54% of the state. Of those, 412,495 are fully vaccinated and have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (25), Berkeley (78), Boone (21), Braxton (21), Brooke (25), Cabell (92), Calhoun (15), Clay (9), Doddridge (9), Fayette (69), Gilmer (2), Grant (7), Greenbrier (49), Hampshire (26), Hancock (10), Hardy (12), Harrison (121), Jackson (20), Jefferson (37), Kanawha (153), Lewis (12), Lincoln (20), Logan (48), Marion (95), Marshall (20), Mason (39), McDowell (44), Mercer (105), Mineral (16), Mingo (40), Monongalia (103), Monroe (19), Morgan (7), Nicholas (71), Ohio (20), Pendleton (1), Pleasants (10), Pocahontas (6), Preston (53), Putnam (43), Raleigh (94), Randolph (28), Ritchie (16), Roane (12), Summers (14), Taylor (37), Tucker (10), Tyler (6), Upshur (50), Wayne (40), Webster (18), Wetzel (20), Wirt (5), Wood (81), Wyoming (45).