Times Leader Staff Writer
ST. CLAIRSVILLE People across the region are being vaccinated against the coronavirus, with a focus on health and emergency response personnel.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said his office has been administering the 300 COVID-19 vaccines received last week and that 100 more doses arrived Monday.
WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital, Walgreens and CVS pharmacies are awaiting doses.
“Barnesville did not get vaccinations so we had to do their staff,” Sproul said.
Eastern Ohio agencies are receiving the Moderna version of the vaccine, which does not require extreme cold storage. Those inoculated will have a second dose in about 28 days.
Staff Writer
ST. CLAIRSVILLE As coronavirus cases surge across Ohio and the first vaccines are administered, three more Eastern Ohio resident deaths were reported Thursday.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul reported two more county residents had died while infected with the virus.
The Ohio Department of Health’s coronavirus.ohio.gov website also reported that another Jefferson County resident died, bringing total COVID-19 associated deaths there to 38.
Sproul said 59 Belmont Countians have died after becoming infected with COVID-19.
The latest are a man in his 80s and a woman in her 90s. In total, the county has confirmed 3,043 positive cases since spring, with 1,009 people now isolated at home with active cases and 1,926 recoveries. Forty-nine residents are hospitalized with the illness.