Noble County is now in the yellow for community spread of COVID-19, representing a slide backwards according to the state’s two-pronged metric.
Huntington, Adams, DeKalb and LaGrange counties are the only ones remaining in the “blue”, the state’s best category based on 7-day positivity rate and cases per 100,000 residents.
And Wells County is back in yellow, having descended to the state’s second-worst category “orange.”
The 7-day positivity rate for northeast Indiana was down one tenth of a percent, to 5.9 percent. There are 60 area residents hospitalized with the illness.
While there were five counties reporting double-digit case increases on Wednesday, eight counties report more than 20 percent of their population full-vaccinated, according to the Indiana Department of Health.
There are 25,108 new Hoosiers fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
Northeast Indiana totals for April 7:
- Adams County: 3 new cases for 3,359 total. No new deaths for 52 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.6%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 23 %.
- Allen County: 77 new cases for 38,385 total. No new deaths for 666 total. 7-day positivity rate at 6.4%. Total of county population fully vaccinated 21.2%.
- DeKalb County: 5 new cases for 4,036 total. 1 new death for 83 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.9%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 20.3%.
- Huntington County: 9 new cases for 3,703 total. No new deaths for 80 total. 7-day positivity rate at 2.1%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 25.9%.
- Kosciusko County: 12 new cases for 8,935 total. No new deaths for 112 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.4%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 18.2%.
- LaGrange County: 3 new cases for 2,480 total. No new deaths for 70 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.2%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 14.1%.
- Noble County: 20 new cases for 5,311 total. No new deaths for 82 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.3%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 18.7%.
- Steuben County: 10 new cases at 3,554 total. No new deaths for 57 total. 7-day positivity rate at 8.4%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 29.6%.
- Wabash County: 5 new cases for 3,433 total. No new deaths for 77 total. 7-day positivity rate at 4.3%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 23.4%.
- Wells County: 3 new cases for 2,814 total. No new deaths for 80 total. 7-day positivity rate at 9.6%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 22.3%.
- Whitley County: 11 new cases for 3,691 total. No new deaths for 39 total. 7-day positivity rate at 7.8%. Total of county population fully vaccinated at 23.5%.
Sources include the Indiana Department of Health and local health department data.
