The COVID death toll continues to rise in southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and across Indiana.
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The Indiana State Department of Health announced Vanderburgh County’s 129th death of the pandemic, along with 126 new infections.
The agency also added a 30th COVID-related death in Gibson County.
No new fatalities were reported in Warrick or Posey counties.
The number of COVID hospitalizations in southwest Indiana was down a bit to 271, while the percentage of available intensive care beds dropped to 17 percent across the 12-county region.
Statewide, Indiana’s death toll spiked by 142 to nearly 5,600 since March.
More than 5,500 new infections were announced on the Tuesday dashboard.
Grim news from western Kentucky, where the Green River District Health Department reported nine new COVID-related deaths.
Five of the fatalities were in Daviess County, two in McLean County, one in Henderson County, and one in Ohio County.
175 new infections were recorded in the seven-county region, with 54 COVID patients in the hospital.
