From Staff Reports
Several positive COVID tests among eighth grade students at Chestnut Grove Middle School in King resulted in closing the school for in-person learning until Monday.
“Out of an abundance of caution, and due to the number of close contacts having siblings in other grade levels, we feel it is best to close Chestnut Grove,” school officials said in a statement sent to parents.
It’s the second outbreak that has affected Stokes County schools this year.
The Health Department had not updated local statistics as of press time, but did announce it will have a Pfizer vaccine clinic for residents 16 years old and older on Tuesday, from 4-7 p.m., at the department’s offices in Danbury. Then the department will hold a second vaccine clinic next Thursday, May 13, again from 4-7 p.m., this time at the Southwest Service Center at 102 Hartgrove Road in King.
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CHARLESTON A Jackson County resident was a confirmed death this weekend in West Virginia from the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported on Sunday.
The 93-year-old Jackson County man was among the seven deaths confirmed on by the Department in the 24-hour period from Saturday to Sunday morning. No deaths were reported for the period from Friday to Saturday morning.
Deaths also were confirmed in Pocahontas, Lincoln, Nicholas, Logan, Marion and Brooke counties, the youngest a 63-year-old woman from Marion County.
The count of deaths since the pandemic started a year ago is 2,686 in West Virginia.
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CHARLESTON One person was confirmed as a death from the COVID-19 coronavirus Thursday morning, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said.
The department confirmed the death of a 69-year-old man from Harrison County. The death count since the virus began last year was at 2,674 people in West Virginia, the state said.
The state reported 432 new virus cases in the 24-hour period from Wednesday to Thursday mornings. Active cases totaled 7,153, up from the 7,081 active cases on Wednesday.
Active cases in local counties (previous day) are: Calhoun, 16 (15); Doddridge, 21 (15); Gilmer, 20 (9); Jackson, 68 (65); Pleasants, 23 (23); Ritchie, 18 (17); Roane, 22 (22); Tyler, 21 (19); Wetzel, 122 (114); Wirt, 11 (10); Wood, 108 (106).
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CHARLESTON Eight people over the weekend were confirmed as deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in West Virginia, according to the Saturday and Sunday pandemic updates from the Department of Health and Human Resources.
Four deaths each were reported in the 24-hour periods from Friday to Saturday morning and Saturday to Sunday morning, raising the death count since the pandemic started a year ago to 2,821 in West Virginia, the department reported.
Deaths were reported in Raleigh, Kanawha, Cabell, Berkeley, Monongalia and Marion counties. The youngest were a 43-year-old man from Raleigh County and a 45-year-old woman from Berkeley County and the oldest was an 81-year-old woman from Cabell County.