Times Leader Staff Writer
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County ranks third in the state in COVID-19 occurrence rate, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday.
The governor shared data that indicate Belmont County has 220.9 cases per 100,000 residents, with 148 cases among its 67,006 residents. The data is collected over a two-week period, and it was current as of April 28. Of the Ohio’s 88 counties, only Lucas and Cuyahoga have higher occurrence rates, at 270.1 and 229.6 per 100,000, respectively.
The news came as the Belmont County Health Department said its COVID-19 vaccination outreach is moving to a new set of schools this week and providing doses to homebound residents in Bellaire. Following last week’s vaccination clinics in the St. Clairsville-Richland City and Shadyside Local school districts and at St. John Central Academy in Bellaire, Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said there will be more school and apartment complex clinics this week, along with the normal weekly cl
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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 Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in Ohio County in its Wednesday night update. That marked the 85th such death in the county since the pandemic began.
The department also announced eight new positive COVID cases in the county as of Wednesday night, pushing that total to 4,300. Two of those cases are what is commonly known as the UK Variant of the virus. There have been 30 cases of the UK Variant, a more communicable version of the virus, found in Ohio County as of Wednesday.
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BELLAIRE Southeast Healthcare administered COVID-19 vaccinations to riverside residents Monday at the Salvation Army.
By noon, more than 30 people were vaccinated with the Moderna version. The prior clinic April 14 vaccinated more than 70 people with a first dose. A second-dose clinic is scheduled within 28 days.
“We’ve had quite a few walk-ins today,” Gayle Westfall, nursing supervisor with Southeast, said.
“I think there’s so many people out there giving the vaccine these days,” Westfall said, adding that news of blood-clotting incidents and deaths among a few of the more than 6 million nationwide recipients of the Johnson & Johnson version of the vaccine may discourage some. After study, use of Johnson & Johnson has resumed.
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