HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS
INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 5,007 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 205,722 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous days dashboard.
A total of 4,348 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 43 from the previous day. Another 244 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.
Todays results stem from a record 50,610 tests submitted in the last 24 hours. To date, 1,794,398 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 1,777,105 on Friday. A total of 3,167,518 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.
Decatur County adds 30 new positives bringing the number to 758. 46 newly tested bringing that number to 6227.
Neighboring Shelby County adds 29 new positives bringing the number to 1207 and 103 newly tested bringing that number to 9915.
Bartholomew County has 64 new positives bringing that number to 1820 with 269 newly tested bringing that number to 21,793.
Franklin County has 448 positives (16 new) and 3230 tested (43 new).
Ripley County has 691 positives (19 new) and 6826 tested (57 new). Rush County has 360 positives (12 new) and 4069 tested (55 new).
Jennings County 517 positives (33 new) and 4948 tested (75 new).
To find testing sites around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.