INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 850 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 81,847 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 2,954 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 28 from the previous day. Another 211 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 ISDH and occurred over multiple days.
Bartholomew County reported 936 positive cases on Tuesday (up 12) with 48 deaths (up one).
Surrounding counties reported:
- Jackson County: 632 positive cases (no change) with six deaths (up one).
- Jennings County: 238 positive cases (up one) with 12 deaths (no change).
- Decatur County: 359 positive cases with 32 deaths (no change).
- Shelby County: 587 positive cases (up five) with 28 deaths (no change).
- Johnson County: 1,862 positive cases (up 14) with 120 deaths (up one)
- Brown County: 80 positive cases (up one) with two deaths (no change).
To date, 928,614 tests for unique individuals have been reported to ISDH, up from 914,633 on Monday.
As of Tuesday, nearly 39 percent of ICU beds and nearly 82 percent of ventilators were available across the state.
ISDH will host four free testing sites from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Saturday:
Goshen:
Team Rehabilitation
223 Chicago Ave.
Elkhart:
Northside Gymnasium
300 Lawrence St.
Hammond:
Lafayette Elementary School
856 E. Sibley St.
Marion:
Grant County 4-H Fairgrounds
1403 IN-18
To find other testing sites around the state, including one in Columbus, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
