State Health Says 1,079 More Hoosiers Have COVID-19

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Friday announced that 1,079 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 78,632 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.

A total of 2,906 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of eight over the previous day following corrections to the previous day’s total. Another 207 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 today, nearly 33 percent of ICU beds and nearly 80 percent of ventilators are available across the state.

To date, 886,489 tests for unique individuals have been reported to ISDH, up from 877,970 on Thursday.

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