HANCOCK COUNTY — A metric used to gauge COVID-19’s community spread in Hancock County improved to the least severe designation Wednesday.
The county’s weekly two-metric score, which is based on weekly cases per 100,000 residents and seven-day positivity rates for all tests, went from yellow to blue.
It led to the county’s COVID-19 advisory level improving from orange to yellow. A county must remain at a lower weekly two-metric score for two weeks to move down to a lower advisory level.
Most of Indiana counties’ weekly two-metric scores were yellow or blue. Three were orange and none were red — the most severe.
Hancock County added no new COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, keeping its total at 128. Another 18 cases brought that total to 7,379.
Indiana added 14 new deaths, raising its total to 12,039; and 1,019 cases, for a total of 658,043.
As of early Wednesday, 13,160 Hancock County residents had received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 7,066 were fully vaccinated. Statewide, 920,000 had received a first dose and 482,564 were fully vaccinated.
