Vanderburgh coronavirus cases jump to 51 – Courier & Press

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Vanderburgh County’s total of coronavirus cases rose to 51 Thursday, in response to the county successfully being department’s new dashboard monitoring local cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the brand new respiratory virus.

The Indiana Recount Division of Successfully being’s (ISDH) statewide dashboard of obvious cases reported the number at 49 Thursday morning, but the two recordsdata sets are up so a long way on varied schedules.

The divulge’s dashboard presentations Warrick County cases rose to 30 from 26, while Posey remained at five and Gibson remained at four.

Statewide, the number of confirmed cases rose from 5,943 to 6,351. The number of deaths increased by 42 from 203 to 245.

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The dashboard additionally indicated exams rose from 30,869 to 32,133.

The local company’s dashboard contains heaps of other recordsdata uncovered all the intention by its local investigations. It showed Thursday morning, shall we narrate, that in 36 of the 51 confirmed cases, patients had been medically cleared. That leaves 14 active cases with ongoing investigations, plus Vanderburgh County’s one coronavirus-connected death.

One-hundred other folks had been acknowledged as “shut contacts” of of us with coronavirus, with 42 of these cleared. The CDC defines a “shut contact” as anyone known to had been within six toes of a coronavirus sufferer for no lower than 10 minutes.

Fifty-eight of us are being monitored by the Vanderburgh County Successfully being Division.

Two new COVID-19 cases were confirmed Thursday in Henderson County, bringing the county’s total of cases to 23.

There is additionally one new case in Webster County and one in Daviess County, in response to the Green River District Successfully being Division.

The seven-county district now has 119 confirmed cases, in response to successfully being officials. Ten of these of us in the district are currently hospitalized, along with two of the Henderson County cases.

Eight additional beforehand confirmed cases, along with one in Union County, are truly reported as recovered. The total recovered cases in the district is now 46.

Of the 23 cases confirmed in Henderson County, six possess recovered. Webster County has seven cases with none hospitalized and Union County has two cases with neither hospitalized.