Fayette County, Union County and Indiana have bad COVID-19 positive test numbers

By John Estridge from ISDH data

For Indiana, Fayette County and Union County, it was bad news in the number of new positive test results.

After one day — Tuesday, November 3 — of recording less than 20 positive test results, on Wednesday, November 4, Fayette County had 36 new positive test results, making the county’s total since mid-March at more than 1,000 – 1,007. Union County had eight more positive test results, making its total 145.

Indiana’s total was 3,756. And the new grand total is 191,764.

Franklin County had four new positive test results for a total of 421.

There were no new COVID-19-related deaths in the Whitewater Valley with the three counties’ totals remaining: Franklin, 26; Fayette, 25; and Union, zero.

In Indiana, there were 25 deaths believed to be related to the virus with that total now at 4,224.