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Marshall County reported another COVID-related death Tuesday night, the county's 37th since the pandemic began.
The Marshall County Health Department announced the death of a 74-year-old woman who was a resident of a long-term care facility at the time of her passing. The county also reported 18 new confirmed positive and six new probable COVID-19 cases, bringing its totals to 1,364 confirmed cases, 209 probable cases and 13 hospitalizations.
Marshall was one of three counties in the Northern Panhandle who remained in "red" on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Tuesday COVID-19 alert map, joining Hancock and Brooke counties. Meanwhile, Ohio County's COVID-19 metrics remained at high-risk levels on Tuesday's map, but the numbers were lower than they had been in previous days.
The county's infection rate and percent positivity both dropped in each of the previous four days, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources daily COVID-19 alert map. Yet the infection rate remained in "red," the map's highest-risk category, and the percent positivity remained in "orange," the second-highest-risk category.
Each county's color on the map is determined by the lower of the two metrics, so Ohio County was "orange."
Ohio County's infection rate on Tuesday's map, which uses numbers gathered Monday, was 78.65 cases per 100,000 residents.
That rate was 96.25 four days ago. Its percent positivity was 5.93, down from 7.88 four days ago.
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported 28 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the county's totals to 1,942 positive cases and 25 COVID-related deaths.
Marshall County saw the same trend in its alert map numbers as Ohio County did. Marshall's infection rate on Tuesday's map was 123.53, down from 149.73 four days ago. Its percent positivity was 11.85, down from 13.15 four days ago.
Brooke County showed an infection rate of 107.44 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 10.17 on Tuesday's map, while Hancock County showed an infection rate of 130.91 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 10.46.