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West Virginia reports 308 active COVID cases, 19 new deaths on Tuesday

Brian Bergstrom
April 12, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that 308 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 13 since the last report.

Locally, reported active case totals are: Upshur (0), Barbour (1), Lewis (2), Randolph (4) and Webster (0) counties.

Nineteen additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR, including a 62-year old female from Berkeley County, a 58-year old male from Mercer County, an 88-year old male from Berkeley County, an 83-year old female from Greenbrier County, and a 91-year old female from Mingo County.

Additional deaths reported as a result of the Bureau for Public Health’s continuing data reconciliation with the official death certificate include an 83-year old female from Putnam County, an 81-year old female from Wetzel County, a 54-year old female from Lincoln County, a 56-year old female from Mingo County, a 73-year old male from McDowell County, an 84-year old male from Mingo County, a 67-year old female from Randolph County, a 54-year old male from Raleigh County, a 56-year old male from Kanawha County, a 59-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 78-year old female from Raleigh County, a 71-year old female from Marshall County, an 87-year old male from Lincoln County, and a 64-year old male from Nicholas County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of April 12, 2022, there are currently 308 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 19 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 6,774 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 97 residents are hospitalized with the virus (53% unvaccinated, 47% vaccinated), with 34 currently in intensive care (59% unvaccinated, 41% vaccinated) and 12 on a ventilator (50% unvaccinated, 50% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 1.91%.

A total of 970,933 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 54% of the state. Of those, 442,111 are fully vaccinated and have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (1), Berkeley (19), Boone (2), Braxton (0), Brooke (4), Cabell (21), Calhoun (1), Clay (0), Doddridge (4), Fayette (5), Gilmer (1), Grant (0), Greenbrier (2), Hampshire (5), Hancock (1), Hardy (0), Harrison (11), Jackson (1), Jefferson (18), Kanawha (17), Lewis (2), Lincoln (2), Logan (3), Marion (15), Marshall (5), Mason (1), McDowell (5), Mercer (16), Mineral (6), Mingo (2), Monongalia (21), Monroe (1), Morgan (7), Nicholas (2), Ohio (5), Pendleton (10), Pleasants (1), Pocahontas (3), Preston (11), Putnam (14), Raleigh (9), Randolph (4), Ritchie (4), Roane (4), Summers (1), Taylor (3), Tucker (3), Tyler (0), Upshur (0), Wayne (5), Webster (0), Wetzel (3), Wirt (8), Wood (15), Wyoming (4).