The state announced Monday that 3,232 Jackson County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 53 from Sunday’s total.

On Saturday, 69 county residents tested positive for COVID-19, and 25 more on Sunday.

The positivity rate for Jackson County now stands at 13.7%, a 0.4% decrease from Sunday’s percentage. On Saturday, the positivity rate for the county was at 16.3%.

To be classified as an orange-level threat for COVID-19 infection, a county’s positivity rate must be between 10 and 14.9%.

Positivity rate is determined by a seven-day moving average with a six-day lag. It’s calculated by dividing the total number of positive tests by the total number of tests administered. The reason for the lag is to give time to receive comprehensive results.

The current positivity rate for Jackson County would be for Dec. 1 to Dec. 7.

No new deaths attributed to COVID-19 were reported in Jackson County on Monday or over the weekend, meaning the death toll remains at 41.

There have been 29,590 tests administered overall in Jackson County since March 18, an increase of 214 from Sunday’s total.

The latest results were as of 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The Indiana State Department of Health’s coronavirus dashboard is updated at noon daily.

On Monday, 5,050 additional Hoosiers across the state were diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at the ISDH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and private laboratories.

This brings to 430,401 the total number of Hoosiers known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

Indiana’s total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is 6,530 with 35 new deaths being reported Monday.

For the state, a total of 4,961,368 tests have been administered, an increase of 34,402 from Sunday’s total.