New COVID-19 cases continue to be reported in Marshall, Starke, and Pulaski counties. Another 59 Marshall County residents have tested positive, according to Sunday’s update from the Indiana Department of Health. That brings the county’s total to 2,452 since the pandemic began. Starke County had 19 new cases, bringing the total to 755. Four new cases were reported in Pulaski County for a new total of 324.
The state as a whole reported its second-highest single-day increase Sunday, with 6,844 new cases. A total of 251,597 have now tested positive since the start of the pandemic.
While testing is also up, more of those tests have been coming back positive. Marshall County’s seven-day positivity rate, as calculated by the Indiana Department of Health, is now at 7.8 percent but more than four times that when limited to unique individuals. In Starke County, that number is 11.3 percent for all tests and 20.3 percent for unique individuals, while Pulaski County’s positivity rates are slightly higher.
Another 22 Hoosiers have died, for a total of 4,660.
