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West Virginia reports 8,598 active COVID cases, 20 new deaths Tuesday

Brian Bergstrom
December 21, 2021

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that 8,598 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 339 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (84), Barbour (76), Lewis (56), Randolph (87) and Webster (28) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of 10 active cases in the last 24 hours.

Twenty additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – an 87-year old male from Randolph County, a 62-year old male from Logan County, an 81-year old male from Gilmer County, an 85-year old female from Harrison County are a 68-year old male from Morgan County, an 80-year old female from Grant County, a 63-year old female from Fayette County, a 64-year old male from Preston County, a 53-year old male from Wood County, a 69-year old female from Mercer County, an 87-year old male from Raleigh County, a 59-year old female from Jefferson County, a 51-year old male from Putnam County, a 77-year old female from Grant County, a 68-year old male from Mingo County, a 65-year old male from Mineral County, a 69-year old male from Pocahontas County, a 59-year old male from Marion County, a 52-year old male from Monongalia County, and a 73-year old female from Randolph County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of December 21, 2021, there are currently 8,598 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 20 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,211 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 615 residents are hospitalized with the virus (81% unvaccinated, 19% vaccinated), with 209 currently in intensive care (88% unvaccinated, 12% vaccinated) and 116 on a ventilator (87% unvaccinated, 13% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 11.08%.

A total of 913,426 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 (76), Berkeley (1,261), Boone (92), Braxton (69), Brooke (80), Cabell (327), Calhoun (36), Clay (68), Doddridge (38), Fayette (345), Gilmer (38), Grant (64), Greenbrier (179), Hampshire (70), Hancock (121), Hardy (75), Harrison (319), Jackson (79), Jefferson (493), Kanawha (563), Lewis (56), Lincoln (82), Logan (136), Marion (217), Marshall (88), Mason (107), McDowell (104), Mercer (431), Mineral (106), Mingo (92), Monongalia (238), Monroe (128), Morgan (166), Nicholas (201), Ohio (207), Pendleton (15), Pleasants (17), Pocahontas (19), Preston (87), Putnam (244), Raleigh (473), Randolph (87), Ritchie (34), Roane (69), Summers (58), Taylor (77), Tucker (10), Tyler (11), Upshur (84), Wayne (150), Webster (28), Wetzel (33), Wirt (13), Wood (254), Wyoming (83).