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Marshall County Reports 46th COVID Death

The Marshall County Health Department reported another COVID-related death Wednesday night, the 46th in the county since the pandemic began.

Wednesday’s reported death was of an 89-year-old woman who was hospitalized at the time her death. The county also reported seven confirmed new positive cases and seven new probable cases.

That brings Marshall County’s overall totals to 1,548 confirmed cases and 277 probable cases with eight hospitalizations.

The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported 26 new cases Wednesday night, bringing Ohio County’s totals to 2,449 positive cases and 37 related deaths.

The Northern Panhandle’s four counties remained in “red” on Wednesday’s West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map. All but seven of West Virginia’s 55 counties were either in “red,’ the map’s highest-risk category, or in “orange,” its second-highest-risk category.

Hancock County had an infection rate of 103.14 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 14.21. Brooke County had an infection rate of 85.95 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 11.68.

Ohio County had an infection rate of 75.89 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 11.24.

Marshall County had an infection rate of 45.86 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 9.20.

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