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Vanderburgh COVID Infections Jump by 62

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There’s a big increase in the number of COVID cases in Vanderburgh County. 

After a single-digit increase on Wednesday, the Indiana State Department of Health’s Thursday dashboard showed 62 new infections in the county.

It raised Vanderburgh County’s total since mid-March to 2,876. The county’s death toll held at 23.

No new COVID-related deaths were recorded in Warrick, Posey, or Gibson counties.

Statewide, 13 more fatalities were reported -- raising the pandemic total to 3,186.

More than 102,000 Hoosiers have tested positive since mid-March.

In western Kentucky, the Green River District Health Department reported 31 new cases in its seven-county region – more than half of them in Daviess County.

The department said the total of positive infections rose past 2,500 with 30 deaths.