Two hospital nurses in West Virginia have died from the coronavirus. West Virginia University Health System President and CEO Albert Wright said Jeannette Williams Parker was a nurse at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown and died on Sept. 30. A nurse at Mildred-Mitchell Bateman Hospital, which is a state-run facility in Huntington, also died from … Read more
Next week, kids in Kanawha County will come back to school for the full five-day week, but concerns are being raised about class sizes. Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary 5th grade teacher Leigh Poindexter said she will have 14 kids in her classroom on Monday and she worries about social distancing. Superintendent Tom Williams … Read more
Recycling services started up again this week after COVID-19 stopped them temporarily at the plant in Beckley. Charleston’s Recycling Committee also has plans to create a Green Team in Charleston that would follow the model that is in place in cities like Morgantown. The mayor would appoint several community members to be on a team … Read more
Kanawha County remained in yellow for the third straight day Thursday on the county alert map, while Putnam County moved from yellow to gold. Two new counties – Mingo and Harrison – joined Upshur County in orange on the latest Department of Health and Human Resources’ map. Gold counties in addition to Putnam in the … Read more
Officials in Wheeling have unanimously approved a resolution declaring racism a health crisis. Social justice movements across the nation helped spark Tuesday’s vote by the Wheeling City Council, which appears to be among the first in the state. The resolution says the city supports proactive and meaningful efforts to improve the quality of life and … Read more
FEMA has approved the West Virginia National Guard’s request to increase the number of personnel responding to the pandemic. Four-hundred Guard members are now part of the response, and the federal government will reimburse the National Guard for 75-percent of the cost.
There are more than two-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and five more people have died. Officials say two nurses recently died from COVID-19 complications.
Riverside High School will be closed today after a potential COVID-19 case. In-person classes are being canceled out of an abundance of caution. Online classes will continue.
Governor Justice says the state will continue its COVID-19 testing blitz, and is now processing around six-thousand people per day. The goal is to isolate “super spreaders.” Health officials say those few highly contagious people cause 80-percent of other infections.
Governor Justice is urging President Trump and Congress to keep negotiating on COVID-19 relief package, and to get it done before Election Day. The governor says he’s concerned that more small businesses will fold if they don’t get more financial help.