After not reporting COVID-19 data Monday because of the holiday weekend, Indiana health officials reported 49 new cases Thursday in the Monroe County area. That’s up from 40 Wednesday and 22 Tuesday. On Aug. 25, the county recorded 60 new cases –the highest number of new cases in a day since Feb. 3.
The county reported one new death Thursday which happened Aug. 30. The county’s total number of confirmed deaths since the start of the pandemic is 188.
The county’s seven-day positivity rate is 4.6 percent, down from 4.8 percent Wednesday and 4.9 Tuesday. Monroe County health officials have said mitigation testing among IU students who returned to Bloomington in August could lower that rate. The county has recorded 13,925 positive cases since the pandemic began.
Currently, 126 persons are hospitalized with the virus in District 8, which includes Monroe, Brown and Bartholomew counties. That’s up four from Wednesday, but still lower than128 Tuesday. Hospitalizations have increased in the area from a low of 12 in July. The area reached a more-than-eight-month high for COVID-19 hospitalizations last week.
Monroe County remains in the yellow advisory. It’s one of only three counties in the state in yellow, and the only one south of I-70. The rest of the state is in the higher orange and red advisory categories. The county is reporting 181 weekly cases per 100,00 residents, down from 220 last week.
On Sept. 8, MCCSC reported 19 COVID-19 cases among 11 schools. Seven of these cases were people not in an MCCSC building.
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 more than 3,000,000 fully vaccinated people in Indiana – there have been more than 22,000 breakthrough cases.
The state has confirmed 523 breakthrough hospitalizations and 144 breakthrough deaths.
Of the breakthrough deaths, 92 percent happened in people 65 years or older.
In Monroe County, the percent of vaccinated individuals 12 years old and up is almost 60 percent.
The rate at which unvaccinated people are getting infected in the county is 6,019 per 100,000.
Indiana
The state recorded 5,240 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, up from 2,952 Wednesday and 2,863 Tuesday. Last week, cases surpassed 4,000 four times. The first time Indiana surpassed 5,000 cases was November 2020.
The Indiana Department of Health recorded 50 new deaths between July 30 and Sept. 8. This brings the total since the pandemic began to 14,308.
The state also reported 894,516 positive cases since the pandemic began.
The state reported 2,602 Hoosiers hospitalized with the virus Thursday, up from 2,513 Wednesday and 2,518 Tuesday. Hospitalizations topped 2,000 two weeks ago for the first time since Jan. 24 and have continued to increase. Thursday was the first-time hospitalizations exceeded 2,600 since Jan. 8.
The state’s seven-day positivity rate increased to 11.6 percent Tuesday and remained there Wednesday and Thursday. It’s up from 11.3 percent Friday. The positivity rate hit a low of 1.9 percent June 22.
This story has been updated with the correct breakthrough case numbers.
