While no new COVID-19 deaths were reported throughout the region on Thursday, the average 7-day positivity rate in the area is back up over 5 percent.
Five percent is the number identified by the World Health Organization as dangerous for community spread of the illness.
Only Kosciusko, Noble and Wabash counties remain in the blue, the state’s safest designation for spread of the illness, based on 7-day positivity rates and cases per 100,000, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
There were 124 new cases of the illness reported in the area on Thursday.
However, the percentage of the population receiving the vaccine continues to increase through northeast Indiana.
Steuben County now has 25.4 percent having received at least the first shot of the COVID vaccine, with 17.3 percent of the population fully vaccinated.
LaGrange County has the lowest vaccination rate among its population, with just 7.7 percent of the county fully vaccinated.
Northeast Indiana totals for March 18:
- Adams County: 1 new case for 3,299 total. No new deaths for 50 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.6%. 11.5% fully vaccinated.
- Allen County: 71 new cases for 36,955 total. No new deaths for 656 total. 7-day positivity rate at 5.8%. 12.1% fully vaccinated.
- DeKalb County: 5 new cases for 3,954 total. No new deaths for 77 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.3%. 11.7% fully vaccinated.
- Huntington County: 17 new cases for 3,591 total. No new deaths for 78 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.6%. 15.2% fully vaccinated.
- Kosciusko County: 7 new cases at 8,685 total. No new deaths for 112 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.2%. 9.9% fully vaccinated.
- LaGrange County: No new cases at 2,444 total. No new deaths at 70 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.3%. 7.6% fully vaccinated.
- Noble County: 4 new cases for 5,180 total. No new deaths for 79 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.8%. 10.8% fully vaccinated.
- Steuben County: 6 new cases for 3,447 total. No new deaths for 57 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.5%. 17.3% fully vaccinated.
- Wabash County: 3 new cases for 3,666 total. No new deaths for 77 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.1%. 14.9% fully vaccinated.
- Wells County: 9 new cases for 2,666 total. No new deaths for 78 total. 7-day positivity rate at 5.8%. 14% fully vaccinated.
- Whitley County: 1 new cases for 3,582 total. No new deaths for 39 total. 7-day positivity rate at 6.8%. 14.3% fully vaccinated.
Sources include the Indiana Department of Health and local health department data.
