COVID-19 update for August 27

Indiana’s positive cases by county; graphic represents positives as of noon Thursday

*ISDH updates numbers at noon daily, these numbers reflect postive cases as of noon Thursday

VIGO - 1132 positive cases among the 15,572 tested, with 15 deaths.

GREENE - 356 positive cases among the 4,493 tested, with 35 deaths.

PUTNAM - 419 positive cases among the 5,072 tested, with eight deaths.

CLAY - 214 positive cases among the 3,464 tested, with five deaths.

SULLIVAN - 275 positive cases among the 3,089 tested, with seven deaths.

OWEN - 135 positive cases among the 3,301 tested, with one death.

PARKE - 75 positive cases among the 1,714 tested, with two deaths.

VERMILLION - 84 positive cases among the 1,887 tested, with no deaths reported.

The ISDH reports 90,504 positive cases among the 6.7 million Indiana residents, with 1,034,746 residents tested, and 3,047 deaths reported.

(The numbers are provisional, reflecting only the information published to the ISDH.)

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US), there are 5,799,046 cases reported in the United States, with a total of 178,998 deaths.

The CDC and the World Health Organization have 24,021,218 diagnosed cases worldwide, with 821,462 deaths reported throughout the world.

On Wednesday, Gov. Eric Holcomb extended stage 4.5 of the reopening plan and the mandatory mask mandate for another 30 days. Stage 4.5 and mask requirements will now continue until Sept. 25. The mask mandate was originally set to expire on Wednesday.

According to Dr. Kristina Box, a quarter of the people being contacted by contact tracers are not responding, an issue that would help slow the spread of COVID-19.

“I have used data to drive decisions since the state’s first case of the novel coronavirus in early March and I continue to do so. The state continues to monitor and respond to these four guiding principles,” Holcomb said.

Those principals are:

-The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients statewide has decreased for 14 days

-The state retains its surge capacity for critical care beds and ventilators

-The state retains its ability to test all Hoosiers who are COVID-19 symptomatic as well as health care workers, first responders and frontline employees

-Health officials have systems in place to contact all individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and expand contact tracing