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Ohio County Sees New COVID-19 Cases Dip

By From Staff Reports 2 min read
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)

WHEELING -- Ohio County saw another decrease in new COVID-19 cases in the past week, as the county health department recorded fewer than 100 new cases over the seven-day period for the first time since mid-August.

The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department announced there were 85 new COVID cases in the period between Oct. 17 and Sunday. That's the first time the health department announced double-digit new cases since Aug. 15. Every weekly announcement in between had been at least 100 new cases.

It also was the lowest weekly total since Aug. 8, when the department announced 57 new cases. WOCHD also announced two new COVID-related deaths on Sunday.

According to the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 4,489 confirmed positive cases, 1,562 probable cases and 103 related deaths in Ohio County since the pandemic began.

The Marshall County Health Department announced there had been 38 confirmed positive cases, 23 probable cases and five related deaths in the county between Oct. 16 and Friday. According to the DHHR dashboard, Marshall County has had 3,702 confirmed positive cases, 1,556 probable cases and 110 related deaths since the pandemic began.

Ohio County was yellow, the second-safest category, on the latest DHHR COVID-19 alert map. Among the other Northern Panhandle counties, Hancock County was red, the highest-risk category, and Brooke and Marshall counties were orange, the second-highest risk category.

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