Northeast Indiana was home to 120 of the 819 new COVID-19 cases reported in the state on Wednesday.
According to the state health department, the 7-day positivity rate in the region is at about 4.4 percent.
No new deaths were reported in the area, according to state and local health department data.
Indiana’s COVID-19 dashboard now shows how many cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, have been reported statewide. The complication is relatively rare, but can be deadly. While the cause of the illness is not specifically known, it appeared in children who had been diagnosed with COVID-19, or had been around someone who had COVID.
There have been 89 cases of MIS-C so far in the state, with the mean age of those affected around 10 years old, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
No northeast Indiana counties remain in the state’s worst- or second-worst category for COVID spread. All of the region is in the yellow, or second best category, except for Kosciusko, Wells, Adams and Wabash counties, which remain in the best category.
Statistics for May 19:
- Adams County: 1 new cases for 3,431 total. No new deaths for 55 total. 7-day positivity rate at 1.4% . Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 30.8%.
- Allen County: 72 new cases for 41,200 total. No new deaths for 681 total. 7-day positivity rate at 5%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 39.4%.
- DeKalb County: 7 new cases for 4,353 total. No new deaths for 78 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 33.7%.
- Huntington County: 7 new cases for 3,957 total. No new deaths for 80 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 39.7%.
- Kosciusko County: 7 new cases for 9,481 total. No new deaths for 117 total. 7-day positivity rate at 3.5%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 32.1%.
- LaGrange County: 1 new case for 2,692 total. No new deaths for 70 total. 7-day positivity rate at 7.2%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 20.4%.
- Noble County: 9 new cases for 3,923 total. No new deaths for 84 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 30.3%.
- Steuben County: 9 new cases for 3,923 total. No new deaths for 57 total. 7-day positivity rate at 6.4%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 40%.
- Wabash County: 1 new case for 3,556 total. No new deaths for 80 total. 7-day positivity rate at 1.9%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 33.3%.
- Wells County: 2 new cases by 2,923 total. No new deaths for 81 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.4%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 34.7%.
- Whitley County: 5 new cases for 3,994 total. No new deaths for 39 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4%. Total of eligible population fully vaccinated 37.6%.
Sources include the Indiana Department of Health and local health department data.
