Thirty more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19, pushing the state’s death toll during the pandemic past 200 as its confirmed coronavirus cases neared 6,000, state health officials said Wednesday.
The 30 new deaths reported Wednesday raised Indiana’s deaths to 203 and represented the second-largest tally of deaths the Indiana State Department of Health has reported to date in its daily pandemic updates, following the 34 deaths it reported Tuesday.
The department has said that the additional deaths it reports each day occurred over multiple days.
The state agency also reported Wednesday that an additional 439 Hoosiers had confirmed cases of COVD-19 — the respiratory disease caused by the virus. That boosts Indiana’s total confirmed cases to 5,943 following corrections to the previous day’s total.
There are now 60 Monroe County residents who have tested positive for the virus. Four hundred and nine total tests and zero deaths have been reported by the state in the county.
On Tuesday, the Monroe County Community School Corp. announced it would shorten its academic calendar by two weeks this year, effectively ending classes on May 7 instead of May 22.
And in an effort to help healthcare workers avoid spreading the virus to their families and housemates, Indiana University is making Bloomington campus dorm rooms available as isolation spaces.
Briscoe Hall will soon open 60 rooms to IU Health workers to rest and isolate away from their homes.
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