COVID-19 Daily Update 8-11-2020 – West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

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August 14, 2020

The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on August 11,2020, there have been 330,447 total confirmatorylaboratory results received for COVID-19, with 7,875 totalcases and 147 deaths.

DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a72-year old female from Logan County, a 71-year old female from Wyoming County,an 89-year old female from Mercer County, an 82-year old female from MercerCounty, an 89-year old female from Grant County, and an 83-year old female fromGrant County. Asthis pandemic continues, it doesnt get any easier to report the deaths of ourresidents. Our sincere condolences are extended to these families, said BillJ. Crouch, Cabinet Secretary of DHHR.

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 (672/27), Boone(105/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (66/1), Cabell (399/10), Calhoun (6/0), Clay(18/0), Doddridge (6/0), Fayette (153/1), Gilmer (17/0), Grant (120/1),Greenbrier (93/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (108/4), Hardy (60/1), Harrison(229/3), Jackson (165/0), Jefferson (289/7), Kanawha (947/13), Lewis (27/1),Lincoln (94/0), Logan (246/0), Marion (188/4), Marshall (126/4), Mason (63/0),McDowell (60/1), Mercer (203/0), Mineral (123/2), Mingo (180/2), Monongalia(933/17), Monroe (20/1), Morgan (29/1), Nicholas (36/1), Ohio (269/3),Pendleton (41/1), Pleasants (13/1), Pocahontas (41/1), Preston (104/21), Putnam(199/1), Raleigh (251/8), Randolph (206/5), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (16/0),Summers (14/0), Taylor (58/1), Tucker (10/0), Tyler (15/0), Upshur (37/3),Wayne (210/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (43/1), Wirt (7/0), Wood (244/12), Wyoming(34/0).

Ascase surveillance continues at the local health department level, it may revealthat those tested in a certain county may not be a resident of that county, oreven the state as an individual in question may have crossed the state borderto be tested. Such is the case of Lewis and McDowellcounties in this report.

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR. Visitthe dashboard at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more detailed information.

On July 24,2020, Gov. Jim Justice announced that DHHR, the agency in charge of reportingthe number of COVID-19 cases will transition from providing twice-daily updatesto one report every 24 hours. This becameeffective August 1, 2020.

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COVID-19 Daily Update 8-11-2020 - West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

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