INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) included 12,126 new Hoosiers in its Tuesday coronavirus update. The state’s seven-day positivity rate now sits at 30% and a total of 1,474,289 cases of the disease have been verified since March 2020.
ISDH says that overall, COVID-19 has claimed 19,643 Indiana lives. Currently, only 10.9% of the state’s ICU beds are available and 35% of the Indiana ICU beds that are in use are being occupied by COVID patients.
Bartholomew County has certified 17,598 cases, Jackson County reports 10,280, Jennings County confirms 5,789, and Johnson County documents 37,591 cases of the virus.