Monroe County
Monroe County confirmed 35 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, up from 33 Wednesday.
The state dashboard added no new deaths to the county’s total, keeping it to 205.
The county has been in the yellow advisory for two months. Its seven-day positivity rate is up to 4.9 percent from 4.5 percent Wednesday. The county has confirmed 15,746 cases since the pandemic began.
In District 8, which includes Monroe, Brown, and Bartholomew counties, 55 people are hospitalized with COVID-19,down from 62 Wednesday.
Monroe County’s weekly cases per 100,000 are down to 113 from last week’s increase, which had the county at 121. Last week was the first increase per 100,000 the county recorded since September.
The Monroe County Community School Corp. reported six COVID-19 cases Wednesday, all of which came from an MCCSC building. The other four are not connected to a classroom or office.
Indiana
The state recorded 2,940 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, up from 2,842 Wednesday. The state has reported 1,042,847 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The Indiana Department of Health confirmed 18 COVID-19 deaths Thursday, and the total since the pandemic began is 16,447
The state recorded 1,298 hospitalizations Thursday, down from 1,328 Wednesday.
The state’s seven-day positivity rate is 8.2 percent Thursday, up from 8 percent Wednesday.
Breakthrough Cases
Breakthrough cases are COVID-19 infections that happen in fully vaccinated people. The state updates this dashboard every Thursday.
So far, of the 3,387,694 fully vaccinated people in Indiana, 62,396 breakthrough cases have been recorded, 3,168 more than last week. This is more than last week’s increase of 2,994 breakthrough cases.
The state has registered 1,304 breakthrough hospitalizations, up from 1,268 last week. Breakthrough deaths are now up to 659 from 623 last week.
Of the breakthrough deaths, 88 percent were 65 or older.
In Monroe County, 57 percent of eligible individuals are vaccinated. This percentage has dropped from approximately 61 percent since the CDC has approved shots for younger children. The rate at which unvaccinated people are getting infected in the county is 8,025 per 100,000 unvaccinated residents, up from 7,806 last week.
