COVID-19 Daily Update 9-16-2020 – West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

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September 17, 2020

TheWest Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reportsas of 10:00 a.m., September 16, 2020, there have been 493,568 total confirmatory laboratory results receivedfor COVID-19, with 13,196 total cases and 290 deaths.

DHHR has confirmed the deaths of an80-year old female from Wood County, a 79-year old female from Boone County, a96-year old female from Kanawha County, a 70-year old female from KanawhaCounty, an 83-year old male from Kanawha County, a 94-year old male fromKanawha County, a 73-year old female from Mason County, an 89-year old femalefrom Mingo County, an 88-year old female from Mason County, and an 84-year oldfemale from Logan County. Todays reporting of ten West Virginians is a painful reminder of the continuingthreat of COVID-19, said Bill J. Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. We extendour sympathy to the families impacted by these deaths.

CASESPER COUNTY: Barbour(39), Berkeley (911), Boone (185), Braxton (10), Brooke (105), Cabell (677),Calhoun (22), Clay (32), Doddridge (17), Fayette (492), Gilmer (19), Grant(150), Greenbrier (116), Hampshire (97), Hancock (139), Hardy (75), Harrison(324), Jackson (235), Jefferson (410), Kanawha (2,083), Lewis (38), Lincoln(145), Logan (555), Marion (246), Marshall (145), Mason (129), McDowell (79),Mercer (384), Mineral (154), Mingo (324), Monongalia (1,768), Monroe (144),Morgan (45), Nicholas (75), Ohio (340), Pendleton (48), Pleasants (15),Pocahontas (58), Preston (143), Putnam (441), Raleigh (449), Randolph (231),Ritchie (10), Roane (42), Summers (31), Taylor (115), Tucker (16), Tyler (15),Upshur (60), Wayne (325), Webster (7), Wetzel (47), Wirt (9), Wood (342),Wyoming (83).

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR. As case surveillance continues at the localhealth department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certain countymay not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individual inquestion may have crossed the state border to be tested.Such is the case of Morgan County in this report.

Pleasevisit the dashboard located at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more information.

CORRECTION: Please note that thedeath reported yesterday, September 15, 2020, of a 66-year old female from MercerCounty should have been listed as Raleigh County.

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COVID-19 Daily Update 9-16-2020 - West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

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