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CHARLESTON -- No COVID-19 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, which listed 1,085 active cases around the state.
Wood County reported a deceased number of COVID cases, a few stayed the same and a couple of counties increased the number of positive cases. The following case numbers were reported by the DHHR: Wood (51), Wirt (1), Tyler (4), Wetzel (9), Roane (7), Ritchie (9), Pleasants (3), Jackson (17), Doddridge (4) and Calhoun (1).
Pleasants, Wirt and Calhoun counties turned yellow on the County Alert map joining Ritchie and Doddridge with Roane returning to green. Twenty-three of the 55 counties are categorized as yellow with an overall 12.41% daily percent positivity, according to the DHHR.
Hospitalizations topped 300 in Wednesday's report, with a total of 309. The number was 224 on Thursday.
There were 44 patients in intensive care units, with 11 on ventilators. The state also reported 10 pediatric hospitalizations, with three in intensive care and one on a ventilator.
WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center's COVID-19 patients has fluctuated between 18 and 23 over the last week, reaching the high number again Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said. The hospital was on diversion overnight due to a "high influx of patients," only accepting major trauma and heart patients due to a strain on resources, officials said.
The hospital went off diversion Wednesday morning, said Wood County Sheriff Rick Woodyard, who added that Marietta Memorial and Selby General hospitals were also on diversion overnight.
The Camden Clark spokesman said there was not one particular cause for the diversion, "just a lot of sick people."
As of Tuesday morning's COVID update, 52 positive cases were reported among West Virginia's correctional facilities with 813 people in quarantine and 68 tests pending. The report stated 9,635 recovered cases and 30 total deaths among inmates/residents.
The Center for Disease Control has an Isolation and Exposure Chatbot on its website for people to determine whether or not they should isolate or take other precautions. It provides options to determine if the person tested positive, has symptoms or was exposed to someone with COVID-19.
"People who were exposed to someone with COVID-19 will know to take steps, like getting tested, and for how long they should wear a high-quality mask," the site said.
For more information, visit cdc.gov/coronavirus.