Staff Reports
The Indiana State Department of Health announced Monday that 492 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and private laboratories.
That brings the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus to 26,655 following corrections to the previous day’s total.
A total of 332 Jackson County residents have tested positive for the virus, an increase of 19 from Friday’s total.
Intensive care unit and ventilator capacity remains steady. Nearly 39% of ICU beds and more than 80% of ventilators were available as of Monday.
A total of 1,621 Hoosiers have been confirmed to have died of COVID-19, an increase of 71 over the weekend. The death of one Jackson County resident has been listed as related to COVID-19.
To date, 183,912 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 165,448 on Friday. This includes 1,459 Jackson County residents tested to date.
Per 10,000 residents, 329.9 Jackson County residents have been tested.
Also, there have been 75.1 positive cases per 10,000 residents, and the fatality rate is 0.2 per 10,000.
