From Staff Reports
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)
The Northern Panhandle’s four counties all found themselves in the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources Friday COVID-19 alert map.
Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties all were green on the Friday DHHR map, part of an overwhelming group of green counties in the state, 32 of West Virginia’s 55. There were no counties in red, the map’s highest-risk category, and just four counties in orange, the second-highest-risk category. Nine counties were gold and 10 were yellow.