By John Estridge from information provided by the ISDH
All three counties in the Whitewater Valley: Franklin, Fayette and Union, are now blue.
And blue is good.
According to the color coding put out by the Indiana State Department of Health, blue is the best a county can do. And, according to its color-coding reference area, blue means in the prior week, there were less than 10 new cases per 100,000 residents and there was less than a 5 percent positivity rate from all tests in the previous seven-day period. The color-coding announcement and update is done every Wednesday.
There are no new COVID-19-related deaths in the area with the numbers remaining Franklin, 25; Fayette, 13; and Union, zero.
Franklin County’s positive cases are now what the county commission president Tom Linkel announced at the Tuesday, September 22 meeting, 303. Union and Fayette counties had no new positive cases leaving their numbers 77 and 418, respectively.
For the state, Indiana had 728 new positive test results, bringing that total to 113,337 and 10 deaths, making that total 3,305.