This week, Governor Jim Justice made a series of changes to the county-by-county color-coding system that was recently put in place to communicate the safety status of schools. On Monday, Gov. Justice updated the thresholds that determined the level of openness for each Pre-K-12 school in West Virginia.
The updated thresholds are as follows (based on a seven-day rolling average):
GREEN: 3 and fewer cases per 100,000
YELLOW: 3.1 – 9.9 cases per 100,000
ORANGE: 10 – 24.9 cases per 100,000
RED: 25+ cases per 100,000
Then on Friday, Gov. Justice announced that the county-by-county map is being expanded to include the safety status of nursing homes and has been updated with an enhancement to its metric calculation for low-population counties. The West Virginia COVID-19 Dashboard has been updated to include a live, interactive map that reflects the color status of each county in real-time. The map will now be called the County Alert System and will be used for multiple purposes. |
August 23, 2020 at 2:04 pm, Timmie Lilly Korczyk said:
Please please put the name of the county on the appropriate county. It has been years since some people had West Virginia History. Some people have moved here and don’t know where all the counties are located. Thank you.