The
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports
as of 10:00 a.m., on August 29, 2020, there have been 426,074 total confirmatory laboratory results received
for COVID-19, with 9,967 total cases and 212 deaths.
DHHR
has confirmed the deaths of a 40-year old male from
Kanawha County, a 70-year old female from Taylor County, an 86-year old male
from Logan County, a 52-year old male from Wayne County, a 73-year old male
from Cabell County, a 77-year old female from Grant County, a 42-year old
female from Kanawha County, a 71-year old male from Monroe County, a 77-year
old male from Monroe County, and an 88-year old female from Nicholas County. “Each
death reported is a heartbreaking reminder of the seriousness of this disease,”
said Bill J. Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. “We extend our sympathies as we
mourn this loss to both the families and our state.”
CASES
PER COUNTY: Barbour (33), Berkeley (794), Boone
(139), Braxton (9), Brooke (88), Cabell (524), Calhoun (9), Clay (20),
Doddridge (6), Fayette (247), Gilmer (18), Grant (139), Greenbrier (106),
Hampshire (91), Hancock (121), Hardy (72), Harrison (263), Jackson (200),
Jefferson (352), Kanawha (1,363), Lewis (32), Lincoln (113), Logan (476),
Marion (216), Marshall (133), Mason (101), McDowell (70), Mercer (290), Mineral
(144), Mingo (232), Monongalia (1,093), Monroe (114), Morgan (37), Nicholas
(50), Ohio (290), Pendleton (44), Pleasants (15), Pocahontas (42), Preston
(139), Putnam (274), Raleigh (346), Randolph (222), Ritchie (5), Roane (26),
Summers (19), Taylor (105), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (43), Wayne (246),
Webster (7), Wetzel (45), Wirt (7), Wood (305), Wyoming (66).
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 Grant,
Mason, and McDowell counties in this report.
Please
visit the dashboard located at www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more information.