COVID-19 Daily Update 7-29-2020 – 5 PM – West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

TheWest Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of 5:00 p.m., on July 29,2020, there have been 273,988 totalconfirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 6,326 totalcases and 112 deaths.

DHHR has confirmed the death of a 74-yearold female from Mercer County. Tolose yet another West Virginian is truly heartbreaking, said Bill J. Crouch,DHHR Cabinet Secretary.

In alignment with updated definitions fromthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probablecases which are individuals that have symptoms and either serologic (antibody)or epidemiologic (e.g., a link to a confirmed case) evidence of disease, but noconfirmatory test.

CASESPER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case):Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (609/22), Boone (69/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke(53/1), Cabell (288/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (17/0), Doddridge (4/0), Fayette(124/0), Gilmer (14/0), Grant (65/1), Greenbrier (83/0), Hampshire (68/0),Hancock (89/3), Hardy (51/1), Harrison (175/1), Jackson (157/0), Jefferson(280/5), Kanawha (716/13), Lewis (24/1), Lincoln (54/2), Logan (106/0), Marion(163/4), Marshall (116/2), Mason (45/0), McDowell (19/1), Mercer (126/0),Mineral (100/2), Mingo (109/2), Monongalia (850/16), Monroe (18/1), Morgan(24/1), Nicholas (28/1), Ohio (243/0), Pendleton (35/1), Pleasants (6/1),Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (97/22), Putnam (146/1), Raleigh (148/5), Randolph(203/3), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (14/0), Summers (5/0), Taylor (42/1), Tucker(9/0), Tyler (11/0), Upshur (36/2), Wayne (176/2), Webster (3/0), Wetzel(40/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (219/11), Wyoming (18/0).

As case surveillance continues at thelocal health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certaincounty may not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individualin question may have crossed the state border to be tested.Such is the case of Hancock, Mineral, and Pendleton counties inthis report.

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR.

Please visit thedashboard at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more detailed information.

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