COVID-19 update: Vanderburgh sees 1 new death, 44 new cases; state reports 9 new deaths

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — For the fourth day in a row, Vanderburgh County reported a death related to COVID-19. Information about the victim's age and sex is unavailable over the weekend.

The Indiana State Department of Health's statewide dashboard of cases reported the additional death as well as 44 new cases for Vanderburgh at 3,271 since the first one emerged on March 19.

Saturday's death reports bring the number of coronavirus-related deaths in Vanderburgh County to 29 and 35 in Warrick.

The county has seen a steady rise in the percentage of COVID-19 cases attributable to school-age individuals since Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. returned to in-person instruction three weeks ago. On Saturday, the school-age demographic of children age 0-19 rose from 14.5% to 14.7% of all cases in Vanderburgh County.

EVSC, the area's largest school system, will not publicly acknowledge COVID-19 cases in its schools.

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On May 21 — when Vanderburgh County had just 228 COVID-19 cases in all — just 3% involved individuals 19 or younger.

The statewide figure for the 0-19 age group rose slightly Saturday to 12.9%.

Locally, 20-29 year olds still have the highest share of the cases with 25.5%, a figure that has been steadily dropping.

The ISDH dashboard now offers four separate figures for positivity rates — the percentage of people tested who come up positive for COVID-19. The "unique individuals" positivity rate registered at 7.8% cumulatively, and the seven-day rate, covering Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, dropped to 9.0%.

An "all tests" positivity rate held steady at 4.1% cumulatively and dropped slightly to 3.8% over the same seven-day period.

A total of 42,034 individuals in Vanderburgh County have been tested for COVID-19 since March 11, with 57,332 total tests administered.

The number of COVID-19 cases that remain active in Vanderburgh County is no longer available. The Vanderburgh County Health Department's dashboard had been providing that number — but the local agency stopped reporting COVID-19 data in July, ceding control of all local data to ISDH. The state agency has taken over local contact tracing and case investigation but doesn't issue a number of local active cases. 

The ISDH updates its online dashboard of COVID-19 data daily, including deaths, as it tracks the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is the latest information available for area counties.

INDIANA

According to the ISDH dashboard:

New positive cases: 1,104

Total positive cases: 110,759

New deaths: 9

Total deaths: 3,278

Probable deaths: 225

Those are cases when a physician lists COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death but there are no positive test results recorded.

New tests administered: 30,708

Total individuals tested: 1,292,615

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 6.7%

Vanderburgh

New positive cases: 44

Positive cases: 3,227

Deaths: 29

New tests administered: 1,324

Total individuals tested: 42,034

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals:  9.0%

Warrick

New positive cases: 26

Positive cases: 1,119

Deaths: 35

New tests administered: 354

Total individuals tested: 13,078

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 12.7%

Posey

New positive cases: 3

Positive cases: 294

Deaths: 0

New tests administered: 109

Total individuals tested: 4,055

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 9.1%

Gibson

New positive cases: 20

Positive cases: 464

Deaths: 4

New tests administered: 135

Total individuals tested: 5,190

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 9.2%

Spencer

New positive cases: 8

Positive cases: 215

Deaths: 4

New tests administered: 75

Total individuals tested: 2,833

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 13%

Perry

New positive cases: 3

Positive cases: 202

Deaths: 13

New tests administered: 63

Total individuals tested: 3,654

7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 1.3%