HANCOCK COUNTY — A county resident in his 30s died of COVID-19 on May 29, according to information from the Indiana State Department of Health on Wednesday.
The fatality was the county’s first in the 30-39 age group and the second-youngest overall after a woman in her 20s died of the novel coronavirus in February. To date, the county also has had two COVID-19 deaths in the 40-49 age group; five in 50-59; 24 in 60-69; 36 in 70-79; and 74 age 80 and older, for a total of 143. Seventy of the deaths were men and 73 were women.
Hancock County’s COVID-19 advisory level on Wednesday improved to blue, the least severe, after being yellow since March.
The county added three new COVID-19 cases, raising its total to 8,464.
As of early Wednesday, 37,748 Hancock County residents age 12 and older were fully vaccinated from COVID-19 and 38,890 were at least partially vaccinated — 58.5% of its 12+ population.
