U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Thursday evening said she tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. The senator released a statement Thursday. “As I have routinely tested, today I received a positive COVID-19 test. Thankfully, I am asymptomatic," she said. "I have consulted ...
CHARLESTON — Thursday’s pandemic update included five people from the region confirmed as deaths from the COVID-19 virus by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The department also reported active cases were below 7,600, the lowest since around the end of December. The state reported the deaths of a 65-year-old man from Ritchie County, a 51-year-old woman from Jackson County, a 74-year-old man from Wood County, a 74-year-old man from Jackson County and an 80-year-old woman from Jackson County. As of Thursday, the death count is 307 in Wood County, 120 in ...
CHARLESTON — COVID cases are decreasing in West Virginia, but the number of deaths remains high, state officials said Wednesday. Gov. Jim Justice reported during his virtual COVID briefing on Wednesday that an additional 62 deaths from COVID had happened in the state since his last briefing on Monday. The state continues to close in on 6,000 deaths from COVID, with West Virginia’s death toll from the virus now at 5,939 as of Wednesday. Dr. Clay Marsh, state coronavirus “czar,” encouraged residents to make certain they had received all three doses of their COVID vaccine. This ...
CHARLESTON — Ten people from the region are among the 39 COVID-19 deaths reported on Wednesday while active cases statewide dropped to 8,339, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Five deaths were from Wood County, according to the department’s pandemic update. The state reported the deaths in Wood County of a 66-year-old man, a 52-year-old man, a 91-year-old woman, a 92-year-old man and a 65-year-old man. Other local deaths were an 87-year-old woman from Wirt, a 93-year-old woman from Wetzel, a 50-year-old woman from Calhoun, a 76-year-old woman ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Schools Board of Education meeting Tuesday was the scene of some passionate exchanges concerning mask mandates in schools. The board voted to end the mandates by a 3-2 vote, with members Justin Raber, Rick Olcott and Debbie Hendershot voting to approve the changes. Board members Ron Tice and Judy Johnson voted against ending the mandates. Twelve speakers let their feelings about the mandates be known, on both sides of the issue, with some demanding to have a choice of whether to wear masks, and asking some of those vulnerable to COVID-19 to be fully ...
Staff Report CHARLESTON — Active cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus have dropped below 10,000 in West Virginia, according to the latest numbers in the Department of Health and Human Resources Tuesday pandemic report. Statewide active cases were at 9,056, a drop of nearly 1,700 cases from the 10,700 cases reported on Monday by the department. Cases generally have been on the decline, prompting state officials including the governor and Dr. Clay Marsh, state coronavirus leader and adviser, while cautioning residents to continue wearing masks and getting vaccinated and boosted, to say ...
