MONDAY UPDATE: 44 New COVID Cases Reported in Dubois County, Positivity Rate Up

JASPER -- Dubois County reports 44 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, according to the Indiana State Department of Health COVID-19 Dashboard.

It brings our total to 2,982 since the pandemic began.

No new deaths were reported Monday.  The county's death toll stands at 34.

Dubois County's seven-day positivity rate is currently 12.9%.  That's up slightly from 12% over the weekend.

OTHER LOCAL COUNTIES:  

ORANGE: 9 new cases, no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

MARTIN: 8 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

PIKE: 11 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

PERRY: 8 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

SPENCER:8 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

CRAWFORD: 12 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

DAVIESS: 20 new cases; no new deaths - CODE ORANGE 

DISTRICT 10 HOSPITALS:   Locally, District 10 includes Dubois, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Perry, and Spencer Counties. 

As of the latest update (released Monday afternoon) 21.4% of the ICU beds in District 10 were available.  45.9% of the occupied ICU beds are currently treating COVID patients. 

The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 5,700 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 387,278 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.

A total of 5,986 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 42 from the previous day. Another 298 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.           

To date, 2,323,969 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,309,879 on Sunday. A total of 4,614,540 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.