Kosciusko County COVID Case Count Continues To Climb
Kosciusko County COVID Case Count Continues To Climb
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Kosciusko County COVID Case Count Continues To ClimbKosciusko County has 747 positive COVID-19 cases including eight deaths after receiving a total of 26 new cases between noon Wednesday and noon Friday.
The first case was reported in March.
Of the 747 cases, 534 have recovered, 11 are hospitalized active cases, eight are deaths and 194 are active cases, according to Friday’s KCHD news release.
The state mask mandate goes into effect Monday. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s executive order on the mandate can be found at https://www.in.gov/gov/files/Executive%20Order%2020-37%20Face%20Covering%20Requirement.pdf.
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) on Friday announced that 1,011 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 60,598 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 2,687 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of four over the previous day. Another 197 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 Friday, 678,749 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 666,283 on Thursday.
ISDH is hosting free testing clinics through Saturday in the Elkhart, Henry, Lake, Starke, Tippecanoe, Kosciusko, Marshall, Ohio, Brown, Gibson, Wells, Perry and Warrick counties.
To find other testing locations around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
