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CHARLESTON — Residents of Wooden, Jackson and Wirt counties have been among the many confirmed deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus reported Tuesday morning by the West Virginia Division of Well being and Human Sources.
The state Tuesday confirmed one other 31 deaths, elevating the dying toll because the virus began in spring 2020 to 4,868 folks.
Among the many confirmations have been two girls, an 83-year outdated from Wooden County and a 47-year outdated from Wirt, and a 76-year-old man from Jackson County.
Deaths have been additionally reported in Putnam, Wayne, Mason, Harrison, Boone, Fayette, Raleigh, Kanawha, Marion, Pocahontas, Logan, Nicholas, Webster, Preston, Hancock, Mineral, Cabell, Hardy, Berkeley and Harrison counties.
“Shield your family members by scheduling a COVID vaccine or booster,” DHHR Cupboard Secretary Invoice J. Crouch stated. “Each can be found at clinics, pharmacies, native well being departments and pop-up occasions statewide.”
As of Tuesday, the dying toll in Wooden County was 263, 16 in Wirt County and 92 in Jackson County.
Energetic circumstances have been at 5,800 on Tuesday, down from 5,991 on Monday. The pandemic excessive, attributed to the extra infectious delta variant and unvaccinated people, in response to state officers, was 29,744 on Sept. 16.
Wooden County stays the one red-zone Mid-Ohio Valley county, the very best stage on the County Alert System map primarily based on an infection price and % of constructive circumstances. Seventeen counties across the state have been crimson as of Tuesday.
Wetzel, Doddridge, Jackson, Wirt and Roane have been orange, the second highest stage of alert. Tyler was at mid-level, gold.
Ritchie, Calhoun and Pleasants have been yellow, second lowest, and Gilmer was inexperienced, the bottom stage. The one different inexperienced counties within the state have been Tucker and Pendleton.
The state reported 561 persons are in a hospital, 426 of these unvaccinated, with 181 in an intensive care unit, 149 unvaccinated, and 96 on ventilators, 81 unvaccinated.
