County Coronavirus Confirmed Cases Up By 24 Over 2 Days
County Coronavirus Confirmed Cases Up By 24 Over 2 Days
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
County Coronavirus Confirmed Cases Up By 24 Over 2 DaysBetween noon Tuesday and noon Thursday, the Kosciusko County Health Department received 24 new molecular and antigen positive COVID-19 cases.
This gives the county a cumulative of 1,060 positive antigen and molecular cases, including 16 deaths, according to Thursday’s report from the KCHD. Along with the 16 deaths, the 1,060 cases includes 133 total active cases, six hospitalized active cases and 905 recovered cases.
Women account for 578 of the cases, with men making up 482.
By age, 239 cases are between 19 to 29 years old; 186 are 50 to 59; 153 are 40-49; 135 are 60-69; 120 are 30 to 39; 114 are birth to 18 years old; 61 are 80 to 99 years old; and 52 are 70 to 79.
Finally, by race, 68.2% of the cases in the county are white; 29.2%, Hispanic; 2%, other; and 0.2% African American. Whites make up 88% of the county, according to 2017 demographics, with Hispanics at 8%, Asians at 2%, African Americans at 1% and other at 1%.
Demographics are provided by the KCHD.
The Indiana Department of Health on Thursday announced that 1,110 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at the state laboratory, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 96,854 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to Wednesday’s dashboard.
A total of 3,110 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of four from Wednesday. Another 219 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by the state and occurred over multiple days, according to a news release from the ISDH.
To date, 1,103,038 tests for unique individuals have been reported to the state, up from 1,092,59 on Wednesday.
To find testing sites around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
