CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — Ritchie County has once again moved out of the red on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources' County Alert System map.
The county's positivity rate — a rolling average of the percentage of COVID-19 tests that return positive — dropped to 7.40 as of Monday's COVID-19 report from DHHR. The threshold for red on that metric is 8% or more.
Like many other counties in the state, Ritchie has a lower color thanks to the positivity rate despite having an infection rate of 59.06, well above the threshold of 25 for that metric — a population-adjusted rolling average of new cases.
A total of 47 counties have an infection rate that would put them in red. However, because the County Alert map applies whichever of the two metrics gives a lower color, many are not red on the map.
The other seven counties that were in red as of Monday remained at that level Tuesday: Grant, Marshall, Mason, Mineral, Ohio, Wirt and Wyoming.
A total of 18 counties are in orange: Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Brooke, Doddridge, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Ritchie, Wayne and Wood.
Six counties are in gold: Cabell, Calhoun, Fayette, Mingo, Taylor and Wetzel.
There are 10 counties in yellow, with the remaining 14 in green.
December 01, 2020 at 11:00PM
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Ritchie County moves back out of red on West Virginia DHHR County Alert System - WV News
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