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CHARLESTON -- Two residents from Wood and Jackson counties were confirmed among the 26 deaths from COVID-19 reported on Wednesday morning by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.
The death toll was at 7,976 West Virginians Wednesday since the pandemic started more than three years ago.
The department on Wednesday reported the deaths of a 90-year-old man from Wood County and a 63-year-old woman from Jackson County.
Other deaths were a 90-year-old woman from Greenbrier County, a 98-year-old woman from Harrison County, an 88-year-old man from Fayette County, an 88-year-old man from Raleigh County, an 82-year-old man from Greenbrier County, a 74-year-old man from Kanawha County, a 74-year-old woman from Raleigh County, a 73-year-old man from Harrison County, a 61-year-old woman from Putnam County, an 81-year-old woman from Jefferson County, a 96-year-old woman from Raleigh County, an 82-year-old man from Kanawha County, an 82-year-old man from Jefferson County, an 82-year-old man from Kanawha County, a 96-year-old man from Mason County, an 82-year-old woman from Raleigh County, an 89-year-old woman from Wyoming County, a 79-year-old man from Raleigh County, a 90-year-old man from Raleigh County, an 80-year-old man from Marion County, an 88-year-old man from Ohio County, a 62-year-old man from Kanawha County, a 68-year-old man from Raleigh County and an 87-year-old man from Boone County.
Pandemic updates are now released once a week on Wednesday, a change in procedures because the federal public health emergency expires on May 11.