Posey, Warrick back to 'yellow' on state COVID-19 dashboard; Vanderburgh reports 30 cases
Mark WilsonEVANSVILLE, Ind. — Posey and Warrick counties returned to "yellow" status this week with upward trending positive test rates.
The Indiana State Department of Health publishes a color-coded map each week on Wednesday, with four colors each signaling a particular severity of the outbreak.
Vanderburgh is the only Evansville-area county this week to remain in the "blue," which connotes minimal spread of the virus, despite an increasing rate of positive testing of 69 per 100,000 of population.
Posey, with 51 per 100,000, and Warrick, with 71, joined Gibson, with 136, in the yellow category connoting moderate spread of COVID-19.
Confirmed case numbers also increased Wednesday with 30 in Vanderburgh, 10 in Warrick and three each in Posey and Gibson, as reported on the Indiana State Department of Health website, along with two coronavirus-related deaths. Those were in Vanderburgh and Gibson counties.
ISDH updates its coronavirus dashboard daily with numbers from the previous day.
Testing positivity rates increased to 22.4 percent in Gibson County, 14 percent in Warrick and 13.4 percent in Posey. Vanderburgh's positivity rate remained at 9.8 percent.
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There have been 393 deaths in Vanderburgh County since the first one occurred April 6, 2020. Warrick County has reported 155 deaths, Posey 33 and Gibson 88.
Indiana's death toll from the pandemic stood at 12,694, with 15 new coronavirus-related deaths reported Wednesday.
Vanderburgh administered 889 doses of COVID vaccines Tuesday, with 778 new fully-vaccinated individuals reported Wednesday. The addition brings the county's total to 48,270 fully vaccinated residents.
As of Wednesday, 16,617 Warrick County residents were fully vaccinated.
The data can be found on the Indiana State Department of Health's statewide COVID-19 dashboard and the state agency's separate COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard.
Statewide, 1,291,990 are now fully vaccinated.
Of the 57,935 doses administered Tuesday in Indiana, 53,819 were one of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, while 4,116 people received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Statewide, Indiana added 25,108 fully-vaccinated residents in the same one-day period.
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Indiana COVID-19 statistics
New positive cases: 1,260
Total positive cases: 693,452
New deaths: 15
Total deaths: 12,694
7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 11.7%
Total who are fully vaccinated: 1,291,190
Vanderburgh
New positive cases: 30
Total positive cases: 21,877
Total deaths: 393
7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 9.8%
Total who are fully vaccinated: 48,270
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Warrick
New positive cases: 10
Positive cases: 7,636
Total deaths: 155
7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 14%
Total who are fully vaccinated: 17,220
Posey
New positive cases: 3
Positive cases: 2,670
Total deaths: 33
7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 13.4%
Total who are fully vaccinated: 5,883
Gibson
New positive cases: 3
Positive cases: 4,236
Total deaths: 88
7-day positivity rate for unique individuals: 22.4%
Total who are fully vaccinated: 6,814
