By John Estridge from ISDH data
Franklin County apparently still has not had all of its COVID-19 positive test results counted as its number increased by just two in the Thursday, September 17 update from the Indiana State Department of Health.
On Tuesday, September 15, it was announced by the Franklin County Community School Corporation that six Franklin County High School students tested positive and more than 150 students went on quarantine necessitating a day off Wednesday for all FCHS students and the school moved to a hybrid schedule where students attend two days of school per week, with about half the students in school at one time. The other two days the students have remote learning and then on one of the five weekdays no students come to the high school.
With the two new positive test results being published, Franklin County has a total of 292.
There have not been any new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in any of the three counties making up the Whitewater Valley: Franklin, Fayette and Union.
Those numbers remain 25 for Franklin, 13 for Fayette and zero for Union. Fayette County had three more positive test results, running its total to 404. Union County had one and now has 76 total positive test results.
In Indiana, there were an additional 850 positive test results running that total number to 108,646. And there were six more deaths attributable to COVID-19 increasing that total number to 3,253.