The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on August 2,2020, there have been 291,071 total confirmatorylaboratory results received for COVID-19, with 6,854 totalcases and 117 deaths.

DHHR has confirmed the death of a79-year old male from Kanawha County. Wejoin with the family in grieving the passing of this gentleman, said Bill J.Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary.

In alignment with updated definitions fromthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probablecases which are individuals that have symptoms and either serologic (antibody)or epidemiologic (e.g., a link to a confirmed case) evidence of disease, but noconfirmatory test.

CASESPER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case):Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (633/22), Boone (77/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke(61/1), Cabell (319/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay (17/0), Doddridge (4/0), Fayette(129/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (76/1), Greenbrier (87/0), Hampshire (74/0),Hancock (95/4), Hardy (53/1), Harrison (192/1), Jackson (157/0), Jefferson(284/5), Kanawha (809/13), Lewis (26/1), Lincoln (67/1), Logan (148/0), Marion(172/4), Marshall (123/2), Mason (46/0), McDowell (36/1), Mercer (164/0),Mineral (108/2), Mingo (125/2), Monongalia (900/16), Monroe (18/1), Morgan(25/1), Nicholas (30/1), Ohio (252/0), Pendleton (36/1), Pleasants (7/1),Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (100/23), Putnam (166/1), Raleigh (183/6), Randolph(204/3), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (14/0), Summers (6/0), Taylor (52/1), Tucker(10/0), Tyler (12/0), Upshur (36/2), Wayne (182/2), Webster (3/0), Wetzel(40/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (224/11), Wyoming (23/0).

As case surveillance continues at thelocal health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certaincounty may not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individualin question may have crossed the state border to be tested.Such is the case of Hancock County in this report.

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR. Visitthe dashboard at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more detailed information.

On July 24, 2020, Gov. Jim Justiceannounced that DHHR, the agency in charge of reporting the number of COVID-19cases, will transition from providing twice-daily updates to one report every24 hours. This became effective August 1, 2020.

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COVID-19 Daily Update 8-2-2020 - West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources