By John Estridge from ISDH data
Fayette County and Indiana continue to have elevated positive COVID-19 test results, add to that 46 deaths in the state count, and Saturday, October 31, was frightful.
Fayette County continued to have more than 20 positive cases in the past 10 days out of 11. Sunday, October 25, Fayette County reported seven positive tests. Other than that it has been more than 20 each and every day. Saturday, the number was 28, making 907 the total.
Union County had one, which puts its number at 131.
Total number of positive tests was increased for some counties due to “A historic load of labs resulted in the addition of 50 historical cases, 519 historical tested individuals and 8,296 historical tests administered to today’s counts.”
Franklin County did not have any new positive tests, and its total is 405. None of the three counties had additional deaths attributed to the virus, leaving their numbers in that category: Franklin, 26; Fayette, 22; and Union, zero.
For the state, it was the second highest day since this started in March and the third day in a row where the positive test results went above 3,000. The state had 3,505 positive tests for 179,358 and 46 deaths for 4,096.