Fayette County has an additional two deaths associated with COVID-19; Indiana’s number of daily positive tests soars to 8,527

By John Estridge from ISDH data

Fayette County recorded two more COVID-19-related deaths in numbers reported by the ISDH on Thursday, December 3.

Also, after relatively better numbers, Indiana’s number of positive test results went back into the stratosphere with 8,527 reported, taking that total to 359,430. Indiana also said an additional 60 deaths were attributable to the virus, making that total 5,748. Fayette County’s total in that same category is now 39.

Fayette County had 20 additional positive test results for 1,658. Franklin County was next in the three-county area with seven. Its total is 802. Union County, a smaller county population-wise, had six for a total of 303.

Neither Franklin nor Union counties recorded any COVID-19-related deaths leaving those totals at 28 and two, respectively.