As Indiana inches ever closer to the end of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, numbers around the state and its northeast corner stayed largely the same on Wednesday.
While 7-day positivity rates in some area counties worsened, the numbers of cases per 100,000 residents improved so that a few additional northeast Indiana counties entered the “blue” category for COVID-19 safety.
Adams, DeKalb, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and Wabash counties are now all in the state’s best category for COVID-19.
The remaining counties in the region remain in the “yellow”, the state’s second-best category for the spread of the illness.
However, the area’s 7-day positivity rate stands at 5.2 percent. Hospitalizations are up to 45, still well below the numbers a month ago.
Statewide, the 7-day positivity rate is at 3.3 percent, and there are 584 Hoosiers hospitalized with the virus.
The percentages of area counties that are fully vaccinated inched up again on Wednesday.
Northeast Indiana totals for March 24:
- Adams County: No new cases for 3,312 total. No new deaths for 51 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.8%. Total county vaccination percentage at 12.9%.
- Allen County: 99 new cases for 37,352 total. No new deaths for 658 total. 7-day positivity rate at 6.1%. Total county vaccination percentage at 13.1%
- DeKalb County: 9 new cases for 3,980 total. No new deaths for 77 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.5%. Total county vaccination percentage at 13.0%.
- Huntington County: 15 new cases for 3,640 total. No new deaths for 78 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.6%. Total county vaccination percentage at 17.2%.
- Kosciusko County: 29 new cases for 8,754 total. No new deaths for 112 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.3%. Total county vaccination percentage at 10.9%.
- LaGrange County: 5 new cases for 2,454 total. No new deaths for 70 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.1%. Total county vaccination percentage at 8.2%.
- Noble County: 11 new cases for 5,212 total. No new deaths for 79 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.0%. Total county vaccination percentage at 12.1%.
- Steuben County: 5 new cases for 3,472 total. No new deaths for 57 total. 7-day positivity rate at 6.5%. Total county vaccination percentage at 19.3%.
- Wabash County: 8 new cases for 3,390 total. No new deaths for 77 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.6%. Total county vaccination percentage at 15.9%.
- Wells County: 13 new cases at 2,709 total. No new deaths for 79 total. 7-day positivity rate at 5.6%. Total county vaccination percentage at 14.7%.
- Whitley County: 7 new cases for 3,603 total. No new deaths for 40 total. 7-day positivity rate at 7.1%. Total county vaccination percentage at 15.8%.
Sources include the Indiana Department of Health and local health department data.
