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West Virginia reports 3,339 active COVID-19 cases, 20 new deaths on Friday

Brian Bergstrom
February 25, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Friday that 3,339 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s an increase of three cases since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (55), Barbour (63), Lewis (36), Randolph (28) and Webster (30) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of nine active cases in the last 24 hours.

Twenty additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – of an 83-year old female from Putnam County, an 88-year old male from Hampshire County, a 66-year old female from Mingo County, an 82-year old male from Logan County, a 70-year old male from Wood County, a 92-year old female from Mingo County, an 80-year old male from Fayette County, a 73-year old female from Kanawha County, a 75-year old male from Jefferson County, an 84-year old male from Wood County, a 70-year old female from Berkeley County, a 64-year old male from Wayne County, an 81-year old female from Fayette County, a 78-year old female from Lincoln County, a 63-year old male from Braxton County, a 92-year old male from Raleigh County, a 60-year old male from Randolph County, a 79-year old male from Raleigh County, an 87-year old female from Wyoming County, and a 71-year old female from Hampshire County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of February 25, 2022, there are currently 3,339 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 20 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 6,308 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 588 residents are hospitalized with the virus (64% unvaccinated, 36% vaccinated), with 133 currently in intensive care (79% unvaccinated, 21% vaccinated) and 76 on a ventilator (87% unvaccinated, 13% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 5.97%.

A total of 961,096 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 54% of the state. Of those, 409,931 are fully vaccinated and have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (63), Berkeley (111), Boone (40), Braxton (28), Brooke (20), Cabell (160), Calhoun (29), Clay (23), Doddridge (22), Fayette (116), Gilmer (13), Grant (17), Greenbrier (77), Hampshire (33), Hancock (25), Hardy (14), Harrison (213), Jackson (34), Jefferson (63), Kanawha (256), Lewis (36), Lincoln (46), Logan (60), Marion (118), Marshall (83), Mason (51), McDowell (79), Mercer (158), Mineral (39), Mingo (62), Monongalia (137), Monroe (34), Morgan (9), Nicholas (59), Ohio (67), Pendleton (8), Pleasants (12), Pocahontas (12), Preston (68), Putnam (94), Raleigh (169), Randolph (28), Ritchie (30), Roane (33), Summers (23), Taylor (70), Tucker (9), Tyler (19), Upshur (55), Wayne (59), Webster (30), Wetzel (43), Wirt (1), Wood (129), Wyoming (52).