From Staff Reports
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
Two of the Northern Panhandle’s four counties were right where they wanted to be on Friday’s state COVID-19 alert map sitting in the map’s safest category.
Hancock and Ohio counties both were green, the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources alert map. Brooke County was yellow, the second-safest category, and Marshall County was gold, a rung below yellow on the chart.
From Staff Reports
The Northern Panhandle’s bouncing through the spectrum of the colors on West Virginia’s COVID alert map continued Wednesday, as Ohio County climbed back into the map’s safest category.
Ohio County returned to green on the Department of Health and Human Resources map Wednesday, while Hancock and Brooke counties were in yellow, the second-safest category, and Marshall County was gold, a rung under yellow on the map. All four counties were green on Sunday’s DHHR map.
Hancock County had an infection rate of 19.83 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.93. Brooke County had an infection rate of 17.58 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.07.
From STAFF REPORTS
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in its Tuesday night update, the 88th such death in the county since the pandemic began.
That also marked the third COVID-related death the county had reported since last Wednesday. The department also announced seven new positive COVID-19 cases in the county, which brought that total to 4,354.
The Marshall County Health Department reported three new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and one new probable case in its Tuesday evening update. The department is sending people to the DHHR website for its latest totals, which were 2,484 confirmed positive cases, 901 probable cases and 76 related deaths.
From Staff Reports
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported another COVID-19-related death Sunday, the third death the department has reported in the last five days.
That death marked the 87th in Ohio County since the pandemic began. The department also reported 17 new COVID-19 cases between Saturday and Sunday. That brought the county’s total to 4,341 cases since the pandemic began.
JIM COCHRAN
The Marshall County Health Department will resume clinics and programs this month, including three that will start on Monday.
These clinics have not been available since March 20, 2020, the result of COVID-19.
Administrator Tom Cook said that some employees had provided services by appointments at the health department, while others had been in matters dealing with restaurants.
All of the clinics and programs which will be back in service will be held at the health department at 513 Sixth St. in Moundsville.
Some of the clinics will need appointments, the phone number of the health department telephone number is 304-845-7840.