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Health Officials Report 7,542 Positive COVID-19 Cases, 85 New Deaths

Long COVID is a chronic condition in which symptoms last for over three months after a COVID-19 infection.
Long COVID is a chronic condition in which symptoms last for over three months after a COVID-19 infection.

Indiana health officials reported 7,542 new positive COVID-19 cases and 85 additional confirmed deaths Saturday.

The new reports brought Indiana's total case number to 419,536 and the confirmed death toll to 6,458, the State Department of Health said.

Monroe County's total COVID-19 case number rose by 130 to 6,866, and the county death toll rose by three to 68, the department reported.

Some 67,582 Monroe County residents have been tested, it said.

The department also said it had administered 4,879,677 tests across the state. Just over 13% of tests have returned positive over the past week.

As of Saturday, 3,141 patients were hospitalized with the virus.

The latest numbers showed that 42.1% of the state's 2,170 existing ICU beds were being used by patients with COVID-19-related illnesses, while 22.3% were still available.

And as of Saturday, 14.9% of the state's 2,802 total ventilators were being used by COVID-19 patients, while 69.2% were still available.

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George Hale is a Multi-Media Journalist at Indiana Public Media. He previously worked as an Investigative Reporter for NPR’s northeast Texas member station KETR. Hale has reported from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Egypt.