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The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in its Tuesday night update. That marked the 84th COVID-related death in the county since the pandemic began.
The department also announced six new cases, bringing that total to 4,234. The Marshall County Health Department had not updated its website with its new totals as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Brooke County moved Tuesday from yellow to green, the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map, joining Ohio County as one of two green counties in the Northern Panhandle. Hancock County was yellow on Tuesday’s map, while Marshall County was gold.
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Gov. Jim Justice discusses his latest executive order, which would cancel out outdated executive orders relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, at his Monday pandemic briefing.
After 12 months of dozens of executive orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday he would issue a new executive order canceling outdated executive orders and providing clarity as the pandemic continues.
“It can be confusing for the public to keep track of all the different orders, so today I’m signing a new executive order that’s cleaning up and doing away with a great many of the executive orders that have been in place,” Justice said during his Monday COVID-19 briefing at the Capitol.
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James Conley sits and receives his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine during Ohio Countyâs clinic at The Highlands.
WHEELING Though the words of their prayers may be different, local faith leaders speak with one voice when it comes to supporting the effort to get their congregants and friends vaccinated.
The Most Rev. Bishop Mark Brennan, the Rev. Darrell Cummings, and Rabbi Joshua Lief each weighed in on their roles in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, each saying that they felt the weight of their role as community leaders.
Last week, both Gov. Jim Justice and Dr. Clay Marsh, the state’s coronavirus response coordinator, both called upon faith leaders throughout West Virginia to join the call of getting more people vaccinated.