Thursday COVID Report

INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 7420 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at the state and private laboratories. That brings to 275,5032 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous days dashboard.

A total of 4889 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 59 from the previous day. Another 254 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 adds 37 new positives bringing the number to 1122 with 7115 tested (76 new).
As for neighboring counties –
Bartholomew County – 2670 positives (98 new) and 24,488 tested (259 new)
Jennings County – 746 positives (33 new) and 5821 tested (118 new)
Ripley County – 1089 positives (36 new) and 7884 tested (117 new).
Shelby County – 1586 positives (38 new) and 11,211 tested (141 new).
Rush – 468 (13 new) positives and 4506 (33 new) tested.
Franklin County – 591 positives (20 new) and 3633 tested (47 new)

To date, 2,009,763 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 1,989,456 on Wednesday. A total of 3,725,334 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.

To find testing sites around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.

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