A fourth Jackson County resident has died of COVID-19, according to the Indiana State Department of Health.

That death, which occurred July 21, was reported on the Indiana COVID-19 Dashboard released at noon Saturday. It covered positive cases, deaths and tests reported to the state through 11:59 p.m. Friday.

At that time, there had been 521 positive cases, including two Friday, of the novel coronavirus reported in the county. That’s 11.8% of the 4,418 tests administered to county residents.

Across the state, 11 new COVID-19 deaths were reported Friday, bringing the total deaths to 2,698 since the first were reported March 16. The new deaths occurred between April 8 and July 24. There also was 934 new positive cases reported, bringing the statewide total to 61,520 or 8.9% of the 690,274 total tests.

The state also recently started releasing information about COVID-19 test results among patients and staff in long-term care facilities.

In Jackson County, the data show there have been no deaths among either group at any of the five long term-care facilities.

Hoosier Christian Village in Brownstown has had no positive tests among either group of individuals.

Covered Bridge Health Campus and Lutheran Community Home, both in Seymour, have had fewer than five positive COVID-19 tests among patients and none among staff, while Seymour Crossing and Seymour Place each have reported COVID-19 positive tests in less than five staff members and none among patients.

Positive tests by ZIP codes also show the Seymour area with 412 or 1.43% positive COVID-19 tests among 28,770 residents, while the Brownstown area has had 28 or 0.5% positive tests among 5,652 residents.

The Crothersville area has had 25 or 0.77% positive tests among 3,231 residents. The Medora area has had seven or 0.37% positive tests among 1,911 residents, while the Freetown area also has seven or 0.39% positive tests among 1,784 residents.

Data for the Vallonia and Norman ZIP codes in the county are being suppressed because there are fewer than five positives cases or the ZIP code has less than 1,500 people.

At the state level, 11.7% of the 2,402 intensive care unit beds were in use Friday by patients testing positive for COVID-19 and 2.2% of the 2,825 ventilators were in use by COVID-19 patients.