Vigo County added 143 cases of COVID-19 today for a total of 4,358 cases, according to state health officials.
Clay
County added two deaths for a total of 21, and 23 new cases for a total
of 778. Parke County added 14 cases, Vermillion County added 20 cases
and Sullivan County added 13 cases as the pandemic spread sets records
across the state.
Clay County's most recent deaths occurred in women age 80-plus.
The
Indiana State Department of Health today announced that 5,708 additional
Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and
private laboratories. That brings to 236,565 the number of Indiana
residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following
corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 4,613 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19,
an increase of 50 from the previous day. Another 250 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.
To date,
1,893,070 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from
1,876,317 on Thursday. A total of 3,414,373 tests, including repeat
tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department
of Health since Feb. 26.