Another COVID-19 death has been reported in Starke County. The Indiana Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard showed one new death in Saturday’s update, but the revised total remained at 10.
Starke County Health Nurse Frank Lynch explains that earlier in the week, the state had counted the death of a nursing home resident in Marshall County that had occurred in July, which has since been corrected.
Another eight Starke County residents have tested positive, bringing the county’s total to 509. The number of COVID-19 cases in Marshall County has now surpassed 1,600, with 23 new cases reported Saturday. Pulaski County had seven new cases, for a revised total of 194.
The seven-day positivity rates for unique individuals also continue to climb, according to the state’s calculations. Starke and Marshall counties’ rates are at about 22 percent, while Pulaski County’s is 8.5. However, all three counties’ rates are in the single digits when repeat tests are counted.
The state as a whole reported 3,505 new positive cases Saturday, its second-largest single-day increase. Another 50 earlier cases that weren’t previously reported were also apparently added to the official count, as the Indiana Department of Health keeps working through a backlog. That brings Indiana’s total to 179,358.
Another 46 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died, bringing the confirmed death count to 4,096. The number of flu deaths reported to the Indiana Department of Health in the first three weeks of the 2020-2021 flu season is zero.
