hospitalizations

Indiana's COVID-19 cases have fallen significantly over the last several weeks. That's prompting the Indiana Department of Health to scale back on testing.

Across the state, the story is similar. Isolation units are full of unvaccinated patients with COVID-19.

Indiana added 16,740 new cases in the last seven days – putting the state back to early August numbers.

The region’s hospitals include IU Health Bedford, IU Health Bloomington, and IU Health Paoli.

The Indiana Department of Health announced Monday the state surpassed 900,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Indiana’s rapid surge in coronavirus infections, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, is again straining hospitals as patient admissions spike to levels not recorded since last winter’s surge.

The number of new COVID-19 cases in the county dropped to 29 Monday, Indiana health officials reported. It comes after the country record 60 new cases Friday, matching the highest number of new cases in a day since February 3.

As of Aug. 25, there 54 people hospitalized in the IU Health South Central region, which includes Bloomington, Bedford and Paoli.