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THURSDAY: Three New Deaths, 75 Fresh COVID Cases in Dubois County
FROM LOCAL SOURCES
JASPER -- Officials announced 75 new cases of COVID-19 in Dubois County and three new deaths Thursday afternoon.
The new deaths put our county's death toll at 65. The past 10 days have been the deadliest in Dubois County since the start of the pandemic.
Our seven-day positivity rate is up today at 25.2%.
STATEWIDE:
The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 7,344 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 546,499 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 8,452 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 81 from the previous day. Another 371 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, 2,710,638 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,694,585 on Wednesday. A total of 5,950,922 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.