Another Marshall County resident has died after testing positive for COVID-19. Marshall County has now had 22 COVID-related deaths, according to Friday’s numbers from the Indiana State Department of Health. That gives the county a higher per-capita death rate than any of its neighbors.
Marshall County has also had another 10 residents test positive, bringing the total to 732. Starke County is now up to 156 COVID-19 cases, after two more residents tested positive. Pulaski County reported one new positive case, bringing its total up to 71, but the Pulaski County Incident Management Team has since posted on Facebook that the person who tested positive may actually live in a different county.
The state as a whole has now had 66,154 positive cases. Of those, 45,751 are believed to have recovered, according to the Regenstrief Institute, while 2,765 are confirmed to have died.