INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 4,731 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 476,538 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 7,306 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 62 from the previous day. Another 339 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, 2,556,493 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,545,018 on Tuesday. A total of 5,376,575 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.
Right now Parke County is the only local county in the red.
Vigo County remains in the orange.
The county health department" says our community positivity rates are decreasing. However they're still high, overall.
That's after 500 new cases last week from community spread.
