CHARLESTON — A county in West Virginia for the first time in several weeks has been listed at the highest level of virus transmission in the state’s County Alert System on Sunday.

Webster County was in the red zone, representing the highest rate of infection and percent positivity, the Department of Health and Human Resources said in its Sunday pandemic update. The state Sunday afternoon revised the map, placing Webster in the orange, after further review found eight cases were identified in which the specimen collection date was greater than 14 days. These cases were removed and the dashboard has been updated to reflect this change. Data collected greater than 14 days indicates that the cases have since recovered from COVID-19 and are no longer being monitored, the department said.

Locally, Wood County was at the gold level, the third level from the top, while Wirt, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Doddridge, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer and Tyler counties were at green, the lowest level of spread and infection of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Classification on the Alert System Map is based on the lower of the measurements for percent positivity and rate of infection per 100,000 people. Wood County was at 17.96 per 100,000 in the infection rate, the orange level, but was at 4.33 percent positivity, which is within the gold level.

Webster County was at an infection rate of 50.18 and 8.74 percent positivity. Red is defined as an infection and positivity rates of greater than 25 and 8 percent, respectively.

The state on Sunday reported 11 deaths in the 24-hour period from Saturday to Sunday and eight deaths in the period from Friday to Saturday mornings.

Deaths were confirmed in Marion, Putnam, Berkeley, Ohio, Marshall, Hancock, Mercer, Raleigh, Wyoming, Logan, Brooke and Kanawha counties. The oldest was 93 and the youngest were 54.

The death count as of Sunday from the virus in West Virginia was 2,530 people.

The state reported 319 new infections from Saturday to Sunday and 5,232 active cases, the lowest since the last week of October. The daily positivity rate was 3.48 percent.

Hospitalizations were at 151 on Sunday with 50 people in an intensive care unit at 23 on ventilators, the lowest since the peak in the first week of January.

The state has fully vaccinated 244,567 people. Residents 16 and older are encouraged to register for a vaccination at vaccinate.wv.gov as all clinics are by appointment only.

Vaccination rates of local counties by number of doses administered and percent of population: Doddridge, 3,810, 45.1; Pleasants, 2,744, 36.8; Gilmer, 2,751, 35.2; Wirt, 2,016, 34.7; Roane, 4,494, 32.9; Tyler, 2,783; 32.4; Ritchie, 3,006, 31.5; Calhoun, 2,130, 30; Jackson, 8,481, 29.7; 22,043; Wood, 26.4.

Active cases in local counties: Pleasants, 7; Gilmer, 8; Wirt, 8; Calhoun, 10; Roane, 10; Ritchie, 12; Jackson 19; Doddridge, 21; Tyler, 27; Wood, 192.