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

The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reportsas of 10:00 a.m., on August 8, 2020, there have been 317,763 total confirmatory laboratory results receivedfor COVID-19, with 7,563 total cases and 131 deaths.

DHHRhas confirmed the deaths of a 70-year old male from CabellCounty, a 38-year old female from Kanawha County, an 84-year old female fromFayette County, and a 77-year old female from Fayette County. It is with a heavyheart that we confirm the deaths of these four West Virginians, 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 (666/27), Boone(100/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (61/1), Cabell (380/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay(18/0), Doddridge (6/0), Fayette (144/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (118/1),Greenbrier (92/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (107/4), Hardy (57/1), Harrison(216/3), Jackson (162/0), Jefferson (287/7), Kanawha (898/13), Lewis (28/1),Lincoln (88/0), Logan (221/0), Marion (182/4), Marshall (127/4), Mason (54/0),McDowell (57/1), Mercer (182/0), Mineral (118/2), Mingo (170/2), Monongalia(921/17), Monroe (20/1), Morgan (25/1), Nicholas (36/1), Ohio (263/3),Pendleton (38/1), Pleasants (11/1), Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (103/21), Putnam(192/1), Raleigh (220/7), Randolph (204/4), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (15/0),Summers (10/0), Taylor (55/1), Tucker (10/0), Tyler (13/0), Upshur (36/3),Wayne (201/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (42/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (233/12), Wyoming(31/0).

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 Pendleton and Tuckercounties 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 Justice announced that DHHR, the agency in charge of reportingthe number of COVID-19 cases will transition from providing twice-daily updatesto one report every 24 hours. This becameeffective August 1, 2020.