On Friday, the state’s COVID-19 vaccination dashboard reported 9,563 or 21.6% of 44,231 Jackson County residents have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 6,925 or 15.6% of county residents have been fully vaccinated.
This is an increase of 169 county residents receiving their first dose since Thursday. One hundred twenty-five more have been fully vaccinated.
In Jackson County, 395 residents have received the Johnson and Johnson single-dose vaccine.
Since Dec. 14, 1,561,705 Hoosiers have received their first dose, while 1,042,768 are fully vaccinated. There have been 50,549 Hoosiers who have received the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
The state also announced Friday that 4,758 Jackson County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 10 from Thursday’s total.
The positivity rate for Jackson County is at 6.3%, a 0.4% increase from Thursday’s 5.9%, according to the department’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 March 13 to 19.
After an update to the ISDH’s county metrics map, Jackson County is classified as a level 1 county and is a yellow level threat. To be a yellow level threat, a county must have a positivity rate above 5% or 10 to 99 new cases per 100,000 residents.
No new deaths attributed to COVID-19 were reported in Jackson County on Friday, leaving the county’s death toll at 67.
There have been 52,389 COVID tests administered to 18,042 individuals in the county since March 18, 2020, an increase of 74 from Thursday’s total.
The latest results are as of 11:59 p.m. Thursday. The coronavirus dashboard is updated at noon daily.
On Friday, 1,136 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 682,099 following corrections to the previous day’s total.
The state’s total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is 12,596 with 20 new deaths being reported Friday.
For the state, a total of 8,730,919 tests have been administered, an increase of 15,673 from Thursday’s total.