EVANSVILLE — Vanderburgh County set a new one-day record for COVID-19 cases Monday with 266 plus one death reported. It shatters the previous record of 210 cases, set just one week ago.
The new data, found on the Indiana State Department of Health's statewide dashboard of cases, brings Vanderburgh County to 10,546 cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. It is a number that has been building since the first case emerged on March 19.
Testing-wise, the eye-popping new number is in line with Sunday's report of 114 new cases. That number came against 883 new tests administered. Monday's 266 cases came against a significantly larger number of tests, 1,607.
Vanderburgh County's seven-day positivity rate among unique individuals, considered the statistic most indicative of what's happening on the ground, was actually a tick lower on Monday compared to Sunday. It was 19.4%, covering the period Nov. 17-23. Sunday's number was 19.5%, covering Nov. 16-22.
No new deaths were reported Monday in Warrick, Posey, Gibson, Spencer or Perry counties.