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Vanderburgh's COVID Death Toll Hits 100; 167 New Infections

WNIN | By John Gibson

Published November 16, 2020 at 12:21 PM CST

The COVID-19 death toll in Vanderburgh County has reached 100.

The Indiana State Department of Health reported the county’s 100^th fatality on its Monday dashboard.

The county also saw another big one-day jump in new infections, 167.

No new COVID-related deaths were reported in Warrick, Posey, or Gibson counties but all three saw significant new infections: 56 in Warrick, 54 in Gibson, and 26 in Posey.

The number of COVID patients in the hospital rose to 233 in southwest Indiana, with the percentage of available intensive care beds up a bit to 19 percent in the 12-county region.

Across Indiana, 26 new deaths were reported with more than 5,200 new infections.

The state’s seven-day positivity rate continued to rise, up to 11.7 percent.

In western Kentucky, the Green River District Health Department reported 72 new infections but no new COVID-related deaths in its seven-county region.

The number of hospitalized patients in the district rose to 49.