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Vanderburgh Vaccinations Top 81,000; Positivity Rate Up to 18.9%

By John Gibson

Published July 12, 2021 at 12:55 PM CDT

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More than 81,000 Vanderburgh County residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Indiana Department of Health added 241 new vaccinations in the county on the Monday dashboard.

The agency also recorded eleven more COVID-19 infections in Vanderburgh, with the seven-day positivity rate among individuals up to nearly 19 percent.

The county’s pandemic death toll held at 402.

The number of hospitalized COVID patients in the 12-county district of southwest Indiana fell slightly to 32.

Across Indiana, it was a rare day of no new COVID-related deaths but more than 150 new infections.

The statewide number of hospitalized COVID patients slipped to just below 400.