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Allen County Tops 10,000 COVID-19 Cases

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Allen County surpassed 10,000 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

 
And almost all of Indiana’s 92 counties show increasing warnings for the spread of COVID-19, with positivity rates, hospitalizations and deaths increasing.

 

In Allen County, one more resident died Tuesday. There were 277 new cases of COVID-19 reported Wednesday to push the number of positive cases over 10,000 with 10,233 cases.

 
Every single northeast Indiana county saw double-digit increases of cases in the past 24 hours. And all northeast Indiana counties saw positivity rates at 8 percent or above, with the exception of Adams County.

 

One new death was reported in Adams County, and another in LaGrange County.

 

County totals for Wednesday in northeast Indiana:

  • Adams County: 36 new cases, 779 total
  • Allen County: 277 new cases, 10,233 total
  • DeKalb County: 33 new cases, 1,020 total
  • Huntington County: 28 new cases, 619 total
  • Kosciusko County: 60 new cases, 2,555 total
  • LaGrange County: 15 new cases, 930 total
  • Noble County: 47 new cases, 1,466 total
  • Steuben County: 19 new cases, 796 total
  • Wabash County: 31 new cases, 661 total
  • Wells County: 12 new cases, 585 total
  • Whitley County: 23 new cases, 619 total

Sources include the Indiana State Department of Health and local health department statistics.

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.