Monroe County
Monroe County confirmed 22 new cases Tuesday, down from 25 Monday and 33 Friday. Last week, the most confirmed cases in the county were 50 on Thursday.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the county is up to 193, an increase from 191 Friday.
The county moved to the orange advisory on the state map two weeks ago, indicating higher levels of spread than the yellow ranking it had since July. Monroe was the last county in the state in yellow south of I-70.
The county’s seven-day positivity rate is 4.9 percent, the same as Monday, but down from 5.4 percent Friday. The county has recorded 14,658 cases since the pandemic began.
Currently in District 8, which includes Monroe, Brown, and Bartholomew counties, 101 people are hospitalized with COVID-19. That’s up slightly from Monday’s 99, but down from 108 Friday and 118 Thursday. Hospitalizations increased in the area from a low of 12 in July but have dropped in the last couple weeks from a more-than-eight-month high of 138 on Sept. 10. Monday was the first time hospitalizations have been lower than 100 since Aug. 23.
Monroe County’s weekly cases per 100,000 are up to 204 after reporting 200 previously, and 181 before that.
The Monroe County Community School Corp. reported 5 COVID-19 cases in the district Sept. 27.
Indiana
The state recorded 2,378 new COVID-19 cases Monday. That’s up from 1,724 Monday and down from 3,255 cases Friday. Last week, the state recorded more than 3,000 cases but fewer than 4,000 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Three weeks ago, the state reported 5,476 cases, the most confirmed in the state in a day since Jan. 8.
The Indiana Department of Health confirmed 89 new COVID deaths Tuesday, bringing the total to 15,069 since the pandemic began. The state first surpassed 14,000 deaths over a months ago, on Aug. 30. The state also has reported 956,230 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The state reported that 2,113 Hoosiers were hospitalized with the virus Tuesday, down from 2,181 Monday, and from 2,279 Friday. Hospitalizations topped 2,000 three weeks ago for the first time since Jan. 24 and have not dipped below since. Two weeks ago marked the most hospitalizations since Jan. 7, when they exceeded 2,700. But last week, the state saw a week-long decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the first recorded since January. Monday is the first time the state’s hospitalizations have gone below 2,200 since Aug. 31.
The state’s seven-day positivity rate is 9.9 percent, down from 10.3 Monday and 10.7 Thursday and Friday. The positivity rate hit a low of 1.9 percent June 22.
