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Coronavirus Numbers Up, Johnny Appleseed Festival Canceled

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The Johnny Appleseed Festival, an annual staple in Fort Wayne in early September, and the unofficial start to autumn, has been cancelled this year due to COVID-19.

The usually jam-packed festival is the latest of the area’s well-known and well-attended events to be set aside as the world awaits a solution to the problem of the novel coronavirus.

 

Locally, the average death rate and new-case rate is down for Allen County. According to the Allen County Department of Health, there were 35 new cases reported heading into Friday.

 

That brings the total to 2,901 cases. Allen County reports 132 deaths, while the Indiana State Department of Health reports 133.

 

Elsewhere in northeast Indiana, Noble County saw 10 new cases reported Friday. Whitley and Kosciusko Counties both saw five new cases.

 

Statewide, numbers jumped 748 cases, bringing the total of Hoosiers affected by COVID-19 to 50,300. Nine new deaths were reported statewide, bringing that total to 2,555.

 

State hospitalizations due to COVID-19 went from 686 on Wednesday to 729 on Thursday.

 

Rebecca manages the news at WBOI. She joined the staff in December 2017, and brought with her nearly two decades of experience in print journalism, including 15 years as an award-winning reporter for the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne.