The West Virginia Department of Health and
Human Resources (DHHR) reports
as of 10:00 a.m., on August 19, 2020, there have been 369,546 total confirmatory laboratory results received
for COVID-19, with 8,801 total cases and 166 deaths.
DHHR
has confirmed the deaths of a 72-year old female from
Cabell County and a 69-year old female from Kanawha County. “Each death
reported is a solemn reminder of the seriousness of this disease,” said Bill J.
Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. “We send our sympathy to these families and
urge all West Virginians to continue following the guidelines to protect each
other.”
CASES
PER COUNTY: Barbour (33), Berkeley (748), Boone
(124), Braxton (10), Brooke (79), Cabell (478), Calhoun (7), Clay (18),
Doddridge (6), Fayette (178), Gilmer (18), Grant (131), Greenbrier (95),
Hampshire (90), Hancock (115), Hardy (64), Harrison (247), Jackson (172),
Jefferson (309), Kanawha (1,122), Lewis (28), Lincoln (111), Logan (380),
Marion (203), Marshall (131), Mason (77), McDowell (67), Mercer (245), Mineral
(128), Mingo (204), Monongalia (1,003), Monroe (22), Morgan (33), Nicholas
(40), Ohio (284), Pendleton (47), Pleasants (14), Pocahontas (42), Preston
(131), Putnam (228), Raleigh (310), Randolph (218), Ritchie (3), Roane (20),
Summers (19), Taylor (86), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (40), Wayne (221),
Webster (7), Wetzel (45), Wirt (7), Wood (290), Wyoming (47).
Please
note that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from the
local health department to DHHR. As case surveillance continues at the local
health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certain county
may not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individual in
question may have crossed the state border to be tested.
Such is the case of Greenbrier,
Jefferson, Mineral, and Ohio counties in
this report.
The
dashboard located at www.coronavirus.wv.gov has been updated to include the
school alert system, a 7-day trend and a cumulative summary among many other
features.