With an outbreak at an area nursing home and the resumption of people seeking care after the holiday weekend, the number of northeast Indiana residents testing positive for COVID-19 jumped Tuesday.
The Allen County Department of Health saw its largest jump in reports from Monday evening into Tuesday, something Director of Community Health and Case Manager Erika Pitcher said contributed to the holiday weekend causing people to delay seeking treatment.
“Today has been the busiest day in the number of cases that have been reported to us. We had 25 new cases reported to us this morning.”
And while the graphs showing the climb of virus activity appeared to stall over the past few days, Pitcher said that is not a true representation of what officials have been seeing.
In Noble County, the number climbed from 17 to 25. On Monday, officials announced an outbreak at the Lutheran Life Villages facility in Kendallville.
The coronavirus totals for northeast Indiana counties, according to the Indiana State Department of Health Wednesday afternoon and counties' departments of health:
- Allen County: 196 positive tests, 18 deaths, 1,050 tested*
- Noble County: 25 positive tests, 1 death, 108 tested
- Kosciusko County: 19 positive tests, 1 death, 309 tested
- LaGrange County: 14 positive tests, 1 death, 64 tested
- Steuben County: 13 positive tests, 1 death, 159 tested
- Whitley County: 14 positive tests,1 death, 51 tested
- DeKalb County: 7 positive tests, 1 death, 51 tested*
- Wabash County: 7 positive tests, 0 deaths, 81 tested
- Adams County: 6 positive tests, 1 death, 65 tests
- Huntington County: 6 positive tests, 1 death, 98 tests
- Wells County: 4 positive tests, 0 deaths, 59 tests
* Information is combination of state and county health department data.
