SATURDAY UPDATE: 63 New Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Dubois County

JASPER -- State health officials reported 63 new cases of COVID-19 in Dubois County on Saturday.

It brings our total to 2,911 since the pandemic began.  Of those cases, 34 county residents have died.  All of those patients in Dubois County have been over the age of 50.

Dubois County's seven-day positivity rate was 12% Saturday afternoon.  The county remains under a CODE ORANGE designation.

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

As of the latest update (released Saturday afternoon) 14.8% of the ICU beds in District 10 were available.  41.2% of the occupied ICU beds are currently treating COVID patients. 

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OTHER LOCAL COUNTIES: SATURDAY 

STATEWIDE COVID-19 UPDATE: 

The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 7,793 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 375,019 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.

A total of 5,910 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 78 from the previous day. Another 297 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, 2,292,178 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,272,182 on Friday. A total of 4,525,760 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.