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COVID Deaths In Kosciusko County Now Up To 11

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COVID Deaths In Kosciusko County Now Up To 11Between noon Friday and noon Tuesday, the Kosciusko County Health Department received 22 new COVID-19 cases and three additional COVID-19 deaths.

This gives Kosciusko County a total of 769 positive cases since the first case in March, including 11 deaths, according to a news release from the KCHD Tuesday afternoon.

Of the 769 cases, 11 are deaths, 192 are active cases, nine are hospitalized active cases and 557 have recovered.

The KCHD also provided a link from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) providing guidance for people that are sick. That link is https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/isolation.html.

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) on Tuesday announced that 809 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the CDC and private laboratories. That brings to 63,678 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard, according to an ISDH news release Tuesday.

A total of 2,725 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 16 over the previous day. Another 199 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 ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

As of Tuesday, 44.6% of ICU beds and 83.5% of ventilators are available across the state.

As of Tuesday, 716,809 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 707,791 on Monday, the ISDH release states.

To find testing locations around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.