Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry has COVID-19, city officials announced Tuesday afternoon.
That makes the fully-vaccinated mayor one of the 45,756 cases of the virus reported in Allen County.
He is reportedly working from home and suffering only mild symptoms of the virus.
Six additional COVID deaths were reported in the area on Tuesday, including three in Allen County and one each in Steuben, Noble and Huntington counties.
There were 342 new cases reported in the area, where there are now about 21 percent of the ICU beds occupied by COVID patients.
Seven area counties are showing 7-day positivity rates well over 10 percent, double the rate deemed safe for community spread by the WHO.
The highly-infectious Delta variant remains the most common among the tested samples over the past 30 days.
Steuben, DeKalb, Allen, Whitley and Huntington counties are all in the orange for COVID spread. The state’s second-worst category on the dashboard is determined by cases per 100,000 residents and 7-day positivity rates.
Northeast Indiana totals for Aug. 17:
- Adams County: 36 new cases for 3,802 total. No new deaths for 52 total. 7-day positivity rate at 7.1%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 35.8%.
- Allen County: 158 new cases for 45,752 total. 3 new deaths for 706 total. 7-day positivity rate at 11.6%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 52.8%.
- DeKalb County: 13 new cases for 4,822 total. No new deaths at 87 total. 7-day positivity rate at 12.5%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 40.5%.
- Huntington County: 45 new cases for 4,839 total. 1 new death for 83 total. 7-day positivity rate at 12.6%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 44.7%.
- Kosciusko County: 13 new cases for 10,023 total. No new deaths for 124 total. 7-day positivity rate at 5.5%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 39.7%.
- LaGrange County: 2 new cases for 2,835 total. No new deaths for 73 total. 7-day positivity rate at 11%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 24.3%.
- Noble County: 19 new cases for 6,261 total. 1 new death for 93 total. 7-day positivity rate at 7.9%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 39.1%.
- Steuben County: 16 new cases for 4,299 total. 1 new death for 63 total. 7-day positivity rate at 11.6%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 44.7%.
- Wabash County: 15 new cases for 3,923 total. No new deaths for 84 total. 7-day positivity rate at 10.9%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 39.6%.
- Wells County: 10 new cases for 3,203 total. No new deaths for 81 total. 7-day positivity rate at 9.3%. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 41.7%.
- Whitley County: 14 new cases for 4,398 total. No new deaths for 45 total. Percentage of eligible population fully vaccinated 43.1%.
Sources include the Indiana Department of Health and local health department data.
