The Indiana State Dept. of Health today announced 922 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19; 670,074 Indiana residents are now known to have had the new coronavirus, following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
The totals include 3,964 historical tests affecting 63 individuals from a lab that had not previously submitted that data. All of those results were negative.
A total of 12,382 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 32 since yesterday. Another 420 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record.
To date, 3,166,538 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 3,161,087 on Wednesday. A total of 8,353,553 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the ISDH since Feb. 26, 2020.
To find testing sites around the state, visit coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
Hoosiers age 50 and older, along with health care workers, long-term care residents and first responders who are regularly called to the scene of an emergency to render medical assistance, are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. To schedule, visit ourshot.in.gov or call 2-1-1 if you do not have access to a computer or require assistance.
Additional locations and appointments are being added as more vaccine becomes available.
As of today, 1,203,613 first doses of vaccine have been administered in Indiana, and 771,091 individuals are fully vaccinated. The fully vaccinated number includes individuals who have received a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines and those who received a single Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
