West Virginia nearing 7,000 COVID deaths

Employees Report

CHARLESTON — One other 16 residents have been added to the COVID-19 demise toll in West Virginia, the West Virginia Division of Well being and Human Assets reported on Tuesday.

Fifteen of the deaths had been from the info reconciliation with the official demise certificates by the Bureau of Public Well being.

The extra 16 fatalities raises the demise rely for the reason that pandemic began greater than two years in the past in West Virginia to six,993.

The deaths embrace a 71-year-old man from Kanawha County.

The reconciliation deaths had been a 66-year-old man Wayne County, a 65-year-old man from Raleigh County, a 73-year-old man from Raleigh County, a 71-year-old girl from Raleigh County, an 81-year-old man from Raleigh County, a 77-year-old girl from Mason County, a 72-year-old man from Raleigh County, a 73-year-old man from Putnam County, an 81-year-old girl from Cabell County, a 72-year-old man from Kanawha County, an 83-year-old man from Jackson County, a 76-year-old girl from Raleigh County, a 62-year-old girl from Preston County, a 74-year-old girl from Mineral County and a 74-year-old man from Lincoln County. The deaths occurred from February to Could 2022 and 10 occurred in November and December.

Condolences had been provided by division Secretary Invoice J. Crouch.

“At the moment is one other tough day as West Virginia households address the lack of family members,” Crouch stated. “Being absolutely vaccinated and boosted is the best option to stop extreme sickness, hospitalization, or demise from COVID-19.”

The state Tuesday suggested that from June 6-20, the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics might be unable to certify deaths resulting from a system replace affecting all 50 states. The system replace will influence West Virginia’s means to report COVID-19 deaths, the division stated.

The Bureau for Public Well being’s Workplace of Epidemiology and Prevention Providers will proceed to certify and report deaths utilizing the demise reconciliation course of, nonetheless, there could also be a dramatic lower in deaths reported throughout this time interval, the division stated.

Lively circumstances dropped by 160 statewide between Monday and Tuesday, from 2,547 on Monday to 2,387 lively COVID-19 circumstances statewide. New circumstances acquired had been 502 from Monday to Tuesday, the state stated.

Present lively circumstances in native counties (earlier day) are: Calhoun 10 (9), Doddridge 9 (8), Gilmer 12 (10), Jackson 9 (13), Pleasants 4 (5), Ritchie 12 (12), Roane 16 (24), Tyler 17 (14), Wetzel 35 (41), Wirt 1 (3) and Wooden 58 (62).

Twenty counties are yellow, second lowest, on the County Alert System Map primarily based on an infection charges. Inexperienced is the bottom.

On this area, Wetzel, Tyler Doddridge, Ritchie and Roane counties are yellow. All different counties within the area and the state are inexperienced.

Twenty-seven employees and 155 inmates are injected within the Division of Corrections. Most inmate circumstances are on the North Central Regional Jail, 113.

The state reported 179 sufferers statewide are within the hospital with COVID issues, 86 of these are unvaccinated. Thirty residents are in an intensive care unit, 16 unvaccinated and 9 are on a ventilator, two unvaccinated.

9 pediatric sufferers had been reported with 4 in an ICU and one on a ventilator.