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From STAFF REPORTS
The Northern Panhandle’s four counties found themselves Sunday in the safest categories on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map.
Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties all were green, the safest category on the five-color-coded map. Marshall County was yellow, the next-safest category.
Hancock County had an infection rate of 8.43 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 1.84. Brooke County had an infection rate of 10.42 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 2.04.
Ohio County had an infection rate of 15.87 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 2.26. Marshall County had an infection rate of 21.52 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.96.
JIM COCHRAN
There will be two Soap Box Derby events in Marshall County this summer, both officially sanctioned.
A first-year attraction will be the Ohio Valley Super Kids Derby which will take place on May 22 in Moundsville. It is open to special needs youngsters aged 7-16 from Belmont, Marshall, Ohio and Wetzel counties.
A sanctioned derby in its sixth year will be held on June 5 on Fourth Street in Glen Dale.
Since this will be the first Super Kids Derby, here is information related to the event:
Super Kids is a National Organization that Governs Soap Box Derby Races for special needs children who will be partnered with an experienced Soap Box Derby driver.
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)
Marshall County’s stay at yellow on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map was short-lived, and the county fell a rung lower to gold on Thursday morning’s map.
The rest of the Northern Panhandle’s four counties remained where they were on Wednesday’s map, with Hancock County in yellow and Brooke and Ohio counties in green, the map’s safest category.
From STAFF, WIRE REPORTS
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in its Tuesday night update. That marked the 84th COVID-related death in the county since the pandemic began.
The department also announced six new cases, bringing that total to 4,234. The Marshall County Health Department had not updated its website with its new totals as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Brooke County moved Tuesday from yellow to green, the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map, joining Ohio County as one of two green counties in the Northern Panhandle. Hancock County was yellow on Tuesday’s map, while Marshall County was gold.