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Ohio County, Hancock County and Brooke County Now Orange on West Virginia COVID-19 Map

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This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Three of the four Northern Panhandle counties will be able to send their high school students to in-person learning based on Sunday's state COVID map, as the number of states in the highest risk category continued to shrink.

Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties were orange on the Sunday Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map, a step better than red and a category that allows the high schools in those counties to bring their students back into the buildings. Counties in red, like Marshall County, must keep their high school students on remote.

That number isn't as large as it has been in the past. Only 12 counties were red on Sunday. Another 33 were orange, four were gold, five were yellow and one was green.

The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported 24 new positive COVID cases in its Sunday night report. That pushed the county's numbers to 3,554 cases and 62 deaths since the pandemic began.

Hancock County had an infection rate of 40.66 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 7.59. Brooke County had an infection rate of 34.51 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 5.72.

Ohio County had an infection rate of 57.96 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 6.55. Marshall County had an infection rate of 69.72 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 10.11.

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