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.
Dec 19, 2020
As the COVID-19 vaccine began to be administered this week to healthcare workers, emergency responders and other critical workers, state officials have announced what Phase 2 of vaccine distribution will look like in the Mountain State.
Current estimates have Phase 2 where the vaccine starts getting to the general populace starting as early as March 2021, Gov. Jim Justice said earlier this week.
Meanwhile, COVID positive cases and deaths continue to climb, with three more deaths reported Friday in Marshall County and four more in Ohio County.
As in Phase 1, Phase 2 of the vaccinations has been divided into subsections based on those at highest risk.