County positivity rate stands at 7.1%

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The state announced Sunday that 4,582 Jackson County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of eight from Saturday’s total.

The positivity rate for Jackson County is at 7.1%, a 0.2% decrease from Saturday’s percentage of 7.3%, 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 Feb. 1 to Feb. 7.

Jackson County is classified as a level 2 county and remains an orange level threat.

No new deaths attributed to COVID-19 were reported in Jackson County on Saturday or Sunday, meaning the death toll remains at 60.

There have been 46,247 COVID tests administered to 17,218 individuals in the county since March 18, 2020, an increase of 128 from Saturday’s total.

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

According to the ISDH’s Indiana COVID-19 vaccination dashboard, 5,813 or 13.1% of 44,231 Jackson County residents have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 1,527 or 3.4% of county residents have been fully vaccinated.

This is an increase of 82 county residents receiving their first dose since Saturday. Seventy-six more have been fully vaccinated.

Since Dec. 14, 779,639 Hoosiers have received their first dose, while 320,575 are fully vaccinated.

On Sunday, 1,223 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 648,875 following corrections to the previous day’s total.

Indiana’s total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is 11,746 with 24 new deaths being reported Sunday.

For the state, a total of 7,557,530 tests have been administered, an increase of 40,861 from Saturday’s total.

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