HANCOCK COUNTY — The county added 153 COVID-19 cases to its total Thursday, the most ever reported in a single day, and added a death from the novel coronavirus as well.
The person who died was a woman in her 60s who died on Dec. 1, according to the Indiana State Department of Health’s online COVID-19 dashboard.
The death raised the county’s total to 63, and the new cases brought that amount to 3,206.
Golden LivingCenter-Brandywine, a Greenfield long-term care facility experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak, reported a new death from the virus on Wednesday, raising that total to 14, according to an accounting posted on the company’s website. The number of residents who are COVID-19 positive was listed at 46, a figure that hasn’t changed since it dropped from the 72 reported on Nov. 27. No residents had a positive COVID-19 test result or new respiratory symptoms in the 24 hours before the latest update. The facility had a total of 85 residents as of Wednesday. It also continues to report a total of 35 recoveries from the virus. A cumulative total of 93 residents have tested positive throughout the pandemic.
Seventeen Golden LivingCenter-Brandywine employees were COVID-19 positive as of Wednesday, two fewer than the day before. None had new respiratory symptoms identified in the 24 hours before the latest update.
Hancock Regional Hospital reported it was treating 12 COVID-19 patients Thursday, two fewer than the day before.
More than 800 new COVID-19 tests were added to the county’s total Thursday, raising it to 47,364. The seven-day (Nov. 20-26) positivity rate for all tests rose to 13.1%, and the cumulative rate rose slightly to 6.6%. The seven-day positivity rate for unique individuals also rose, to 20.4%, as did the cumulative rate, slightly, to 11.7%.
Indiana added 60 new COVID-19 deaths Thursday, raising that total to 5,748. Another 8,527 new cases brought that total to 359,430. The state also added 60,742 new tests, for a total of more than 4.4 million. More than 2.2 million individuals in Indiana have been tested throughout the pandemic.
The state’s seven-day (Nov. 20-26) positivity rate for all tests was 11.4% and the cumulative rate was 7.4%. Its seven-day positivity rate for unique individuals was 23.7% and the cumulative rate was 16%.
Indiana’s COVID-19 hospital census decreased slightly Thursday to a total of 3,362 patients, with 2,906 confirmed and 456 under investigation. More than 45% of the ICU beds in the state are being used for COVID-19 patients, with 20.5% available. Just over 14% of the state’s ventilators are being used by COVID-19 patients, and almost 70% are available.
