County COVID rate drops to 5.35 cases per 100,000 people

Wood County has reported two new cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, and has dropped to 5.35 cases per 100,000 population. 

The county is now up to 13,299 confirmed and probable cases from COVID, 228 deaths and 658 hospitalizations since last March, according to the Thursday, July 1, update from the Wood County Health Department. 

The number of deaths was revised after a previously reported death was determined to not be the result of COVID-19.