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From the ISDH ORANGE. The county has a point score of 2.0 to 2.5 when percent positivity and new cases per 100,000 residents are combined. Community spread is approaching high levels. These requirements are in effect when a county reaches the orange metric and remain until a county moves to yellow or blue for two …
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From the ISDH RED. The county has a point score of 3.0 or higher when percent positivity and new cases per 100,000 residents are combined. Very high positivity and community spread. When a county is in the red metric, these requirements remain in effect until the metric has returned to orange or lower for two …
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By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County recorded three more deaths in the statistics released Wednesday, November 18, by the Indiana State Department of Health. While it also recorded 27 more positive test results, Fayette County was downgraded from red to orange on the ISDH’s color-coded map. Union County was also moved down from …
By John Estridge with ISDH data Indiana reported 84 COVID-19-related deaths regarding the Indiana State Department of Health daily report on its dashboard. One of those deaths came from Fayette County, making 28 people who have been reported to die from COVID-19-related reasons in Fayette County. Fayette County also had an additional 34 positive test …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County doubled its number of positive test results from one day ago. According to ISDH data published on Monday, November 16, Franklin County had 16 positive test results for a total of 547. Fayette County had an additional 19 positive test results, making its total 1,235. And Union …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Indiana went over the quarter of a million mark for positive COVID-19 tests with the release of Sunday, November 15, numbers by the Indiana State Health Department. There were 6,844 positive test results reported in the state on Sunday, bringing the state’s total since March 6 to 251,597. Twenty-two …
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By John Estridge from ISDH data The good news about the numbers ISDH released about the COVID-19 situation in the Whitewater Valley and the state is there were no more COVID-19-related deaths in the Whitewater Valley. Other than that, the numbers are sobering to say the least. For the state, it was a new record …
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By John Estridge from ISDH data When looking at today’s numbers remember it is Friday the 13th in the year 2020. Indiana again has more than 5,000 positive test results, with Friday, November 13’s number at 5,708 for a grand total of 236,565 since mid March. Fifty people in Indiana died with what is believed …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Indiana had another record breaking day while all three counties in the Whitewater Valley had elevated numbers of COVID-19 positive test results. There were 6,654 positive test results in the state bringing its total to 230,965. Also, the state compiled 51 deaths associated with COVID-19. The state’s total is …
By John Estridge Whitewater Career Center in Connersville is going to adapt the hybrid enrollment model. Parents received an email explaining the new schedule. Franklin County High School has been on the hybrid model for most of the school year while Fayette County School Corporation decided to adopt the hybrid model beginning Monday, November 16. …