COVID-19 update Tuesday


HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 3,477 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 533,083 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 8,292 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 142 from the previous day. Another 371 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by the state and occurred over multiple days. 
Decatur County has another death bringing the total to 77. 2183 positives (11 new) and 9786 tested (37 new)
Bartholomew County has 5694 positives (33 new) and 32,668 tested (74 new)
Jennings County has had another resident die bringing the number to 34. 1742 positives (5 new) and 8512 tested (11 new)
Ripley County has 2598 positives (13 new) and 11,320 tested (19 new)
Franklin County has 1280 positives (11 new) and 5243 tested (21 new)
Shelby County adds another death bringing the number to 75. 3564 positives (310 and 15,772 tested (39 new)
Rush County has 1283 positives (18 new) and 6541 tested (31 new)
         
To date, 2,681,739 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,675,056 on Monday. A total of 5,845,344 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.

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