The state announced Tuesday that 4,178 Jackson County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 18 from Monday’s total.

The positivity rate for Jackson County is at 12.7%, a 1.5% decrease from Monday’s 14.2%, according to the Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard.

The rate is determined by a seven-day moving average with a six-day lag to give time to receive comprehensive results. The current positivity rate for the county would be for Jan. 6 to 12.

Jackson County was still classified as a level 3 county Tuesday, meaning a red warning level for COVID-19 spread. But that is expected to change to orange today.

One new death attributed to COVID-19 was reported in Jackson County on Tuesday, meaning the death toll increases to 46.

There have been 39,192 COVID tests administered to 16,196 individuals in the county since March 18, 2020, an increase of 306 from Monday’s total.

The latest results were as of 11:59 p.m. Monday. The coronavirus dashboard is updated at noon daily.

According to the ISDH’s Indiana COVID-19 vaccination dashboard, 1,654 or 3.7% of 44,231 Jackson County residents have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 397 or 0.09% of county residents have been fully vaccinated.

This is an increase of 23 county residents receiving their first dose since Monday. Fifty-eight more have been fully vaccinated.

Since Dec. 14, 317,461 Hoosiers have received their first dose, while 71,891 are fully vaccinated.

On Tuesday, 2,756 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 the total number of Hoosiers known to have had the novel coronavirus to 595,436 following corrections to the previous day’s total.

Indiana’s total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is 8,092 with 126 new deaths being reported Tuesday.

For the state, a total of 6,498,762 tests have been administered, an increase of 36,022 from Monday’s total.