LAFAYETTE – Tippecanoe County’s confirmed cases of coronavirus, among the smallest per capita in Indiana, grew 16 percent in one day, according to figures released Monday by the Indiana State Department of Health.
But that paled in comparison to Cass County, two counties to the northeast, where the spike in COVID-19 cases continued with another 439, up nearly 75 percent in one day, to push the total there to 1,025, according to state health department numbers Monday.
In Cass County, where cases led to a shut down of a Tyson meat packing plant last week, Logansport Mayor Chris Martin imposed stricter stay-at-home orders, limiting travel, requiring masks when entering essential businesses and imposing criminal penalties for violations.
In Tippecanoe County, the cases increased by 15, for a total of 90 since the first was reported in March. It wasn’t immediately clear Monday whether the new cases in Tippecanoe County were connected.
Tippecanoe County had a rate of 4.6 confirmed cases per 10,000 people. That still was five times lower than the state’s rate of 23.7 cases per 10,000 people. In Cass County, the rate was 272 cases per 10,000 people.
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