Four more Allen County residents have died from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease to 235.
With 148 additional positive cases, the total of those infected is now at 8,928.
Every other northeast Indiana county, with the exception of LaGrange, is seeing new COVID-19 diagnoses well above double-digits. Positivity rates in some counties have gone down a little, as the numbers of individuals tested have increased significantly.
COVID-19 hospitalizations state-wide are at 1,679, just 100 under the record set early on in the pandemic.
The vast majority of those who have died from the virus are over age 70, with nearly 77 percent of the deaths coming from that age group, according to the Indiana State Department of Health.
Northeast Indiana county new cases and totals:
- Adams County: 42 new cases, for 617 total
- Allen County: 148 new cases, for 8,928 total
- DeKalb County: 20 new cases, for 833 total
- Huntington County: 18 new cases, for 472 total
- Kosciusko County: 44 new cases, for 2,147 total
- LaGrange County: five new cases, for 831 total
- Noble County: 26 new cases, for 1,273 total
- Steuben County: 11 new cases, for 684 total
- Wabash County: 30 new cases, for 489 total
- Wells County: 17 new cases, for 490 total
- Whitley County: 16 new cases, for 508 total
* Sources include the Indiana State Department of Health and local counties' departments of health.
