By John Estridge from ISDH data
Fayette County had 30 additional positive test results, according to ISDH’s Wednesday, October 21, daily update.
The 30 positives came out of 255 tested for a percentage of 12.
That makes Fayette County’s total of positive test results at 614. Also, Wednesday is the day for Indiana to come out with its color-coded expression of how a county is faring regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. Fayette County is orange, the next to worst a county can be.
Union and Franklin counties went from blue, the best rating for a county, to each of them being yellow, a step better than orange.
Union County had two positive test results out of 22 tested, which means a positive test result percentage of 11. Franklin County went up by one to 366. Union County’s total is 106.
There were no new COVID-19-related deaths in the three counties, meaning the numbers remain: Franklin, 25; Fayette, 17; and Union, zero.
Indiana had 1,766 new positive test results, for a total of 152,396. There were 15 additional deaths attributed to COVID-19, making that total 3,790.