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West Virginia reports 8,428 active COVID cases, 22 new deaths on Monday

Brian Bergstrom
December 13, 2021

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Monday that 8,428 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 609 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (75), Barbour (48), Lewis (93), Randolph (77) and Webster (46) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of six active cases over the weekend.

Twenty-two additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 60-year old male from Upshur County, an 85-year old female from Ritchie County, a 56-year old female from Taylor County, a 69-year old male from Preston County, a 63-year old male from Berkeley County, a 51-year old male from Mercer County, an 84-year old male from Randolph County, a 51-year old male from Fayette County, a 49-year old male from Cabell County, an 85-year old male from Clay County, an 84-year old female from Marshall County, a 55-year old male from Mercer County, a 62-year old female from Jackson County, a 45-year old male from Monroe County, an 80-year old male from Marshall County, a 75-year old male from Raleigh County, a 73-year old male from Hancock County, a 77-year old female from Marshall County, a 61-year old female from Raleigh County, a 64-year old male from Mingo County, a 52-year old female from Wetzel County, and a 79-year old male from Fayette County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of December 13, 2021, there are currently 8,428 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 22 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,107 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 633 residents are hospitalized with the virus (82% unvaccinated, 18% vaccinated), with 201 currently in intensive care (86% unvaccinated, 14% vaccinated) and 123 on a ventilator (85% unvaccinated, 15% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 11.82%.

A total of 906,937 people have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 51% of the state.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (48), Berkeley (892), Boone (97), Braxton (53), Brooke (89), Cabell (378), Calhoun (38), Clay (53), Doddridge (22), Fayette (275), Gilmer (13), Grant (114), Greenbrier (145), Hampshire (94), Hancock (128), Hardy (82), Harrison (327), Jackson (59), Jefferson (398), Kanawha (611), Lewis (93), Lincoln (89), Logan (121), Marion (273), Marshall (108), Mason (110), McDowell (102), Mercer (442), Mineral (119), Mingo (130), Monongalia (257), Monroe (74), Morgan (110), Nicholas (210), Ohio (225), Pendleton (29), Pleasants (35), Pocahontas (8), Preston (116), Putnam (277), Raleigh (397), Randolph (77), Ritchie (37), Roane (81), Summers (54), Taylor (123), Tucker (8), Tyler (24), Upshur (75), Wayne (152), Webster (46), Wetzel (51), Wirt (28), Wood (355), Wyoming (76).