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CHARLESTON -- Three Jackson County residents were among the deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus confirmed on Friday by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.
The Jackson County deaths were a 68-year-old man, a 57-year-old man and a 90-year-old man, the department said.
Seventeen deaths were reported on Friday by the department.
Also reported were a 91-year-old woman from Wayne County, a 90-year-old woman from Raleigh County, an 80-year-old woman from Harrison County, a 98-year-old woman from Logan County, a 74-year-old man from Kanawha County, an 84-year-old man from Harrison County, a 71-year-old man from Summers County, an 85-year-old man from Cabell County, a 77-year-old man from Brooke County, an 86-year-old man from Monongalia County, an 84-year-old woman from Greenbrier County, an 86-year-old man from Greenbrier County, a 65-year-old man from Kanawha County and an 88-year-old man from Putnam County.
The 17 raise the death count since the pandemic started three years ago to 7,778.
"Staying up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters is the best way to protect yourself from serious illness due to the virus," Dr. Jeffrey H. Coben, interim department cabinet secretary, said. "Our thoughts and condolences are with the families who have lost loved ones."
The state reported 1,079 active COVID-19 cases statewide, 38 more than Thursday. Another 329 new cases have been received between Thursday and Friday.
Current active cases in local counties (previous day) are: Calhoun 1 (1), Doddridge 1 (0), Gilmer 1 (1), Jackson 16 (17), Pleasants 1 (0), Ritchie 3 (3), Roane 10 (12), Tyler 4 (4), Wetzel 11 (12), Wirt 1 (0), Wood 47 (44)
Nineteen counties in the state are yellow on the County Alert System Map. Yellow is second lowest to the green level.
Wetzel County is the only yellow county in this region. All other counties in the region are green.
Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and Wood counties are ranked low on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Community Level.
Precautions include: staying up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines, including recommended booster doses; ventilation improvements; avoiding contact with those suspected or confirmed with COVID-19; following recommendations for isolation if suspected to have or confirmed to have COVID-19; following recommendations for what to do if exposed to someone with COVID-19; and if at high risk of getting sick, talk with a healthcare provider about additional prevention actions.
Doddridge, Gilmer, Tyler and Wetzel counties were ranked medium.
Recommendations include those for low threat and: if at high risk of getting very sick, wear a high-quality mask or respirator (such as N95) when indoors in public; and if social contact with someone at high risk for getting very sick, consider self-testing to detect infection before contact, and consider wearing a high-quality mask when indoors with them.
The state reported 301 people are in a hospital with 52 in an intensive care unit and 16 on a ventilator. Four pediatric cases were reported with one in an ICU.