CAMC implements no-visitor policy

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Charleston Area Medical Center says that COVID-19 numbers are spiking, and they are expected to climb coming off a holiday weekend, in addition to schools and sports starting up. CAMC implemented a no-visitor policy over the weekend and are opening an additional drive through testing location at Women and Children’s Hospital.

WV’s “Rt” number highest in the country

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West Virginia’s “Rt” number is the highest in the country at one-point-two-eight. The number is a measurement of how COVID-19 is spreading from person to person. The state’s active cases are up to nearly 28-hundred.

Governor’s Residency Case To Be Heard in October

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The West Virginia Supreme Court has set oral arguments in a lawsuit over whether Gov. Jim Justice must live in the state capital. Arguments are set for Oct. 14 in an appeal of a Kanawha circuit judge’s ruling that denied the governor’s motion to dismiss the 2-year-old case. Delegate Isaac Sponaugle wants Justice to live … Read more

UC Students Participate in Labor of Love Project

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Students at the University of Charleston used the Labor Day weekend to wrap up work on the Labor of Love Project. UC’s traditional tasks involved trash pickup, landscaping and visiting nursing homes, but the pandemic changed that. Students spent time painting parts of a new mural, making hundreds of masks for people who need them, … Read more

Monroe County Nursing Home Outbreak Shows Improvement

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A COVID-19 outbreak that killed five people at a Monroe County nursing home has stabilized, although several residents and staff members are still infected. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported that the Springfield Center in Lindside began testing all residents and staff August 18th and the number of positive cases peaked on Aug. 30 with 67 … Read more

Kanawha County Schools Report Positive Cases

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Kanawha County schools have had a total of nine coronavirus cases reported so far at eight schools. The school system’s website said that the positive cases are at two elementary schools, two middle schools, a high school and a career technical center. Sissonville High School had one case confirmed last week. All schools remain open.

COVID-19 vaccine task force being organized

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State Adjutant General Jim Hoyer is organizing a task force from the National Guard at the state Bureau of Public Health to prepare for a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the months ahead. No one knows when a vaccine will be available. Predictions have ranged from October to the end of the year, to sometime next … Read more

Kanawha County woman dies from COVID-19

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An 86-year-old Kanawha County woman has died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 247. There are close to 140 new cases of the virus, for a total of over 27-hundred active cases. The state’s positive test rate is almost three-point-eight-percent.