Monroe County's COVID cases up 7%; Indiana cases up 5.2%

Mike Stucka USA TODAY NETWORK
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Huntah informs Captain Paul Douglas of the Bristol County House of Correction K-9 unit that she has found the COVID-19 scented sample she found under the computer APC case.
Huntah informs Captain Paul Douglas of the Bristol County House of Correction K-9 unit that she has found the COVID-19 scented sample she found under the computer APC case.

New coronavirus cases increased 5.2% in Indiana in the week ending Sunday as the state added 8,917 cases. The previous week had 8,473 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Indiana ranked 42nd among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 1.2% from the week before, with 721,538 cases reported. With 2.02% of the country's population, Indiana had 1.24% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 24 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.

Monroe County reported 183 cases and two deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 171 cases and zero deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 30,054 cases and 284 deaths.

Within Indiana, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Clark County with 448 cases per 100,000 per week; Floyd County with 317; and Warrick County with 297. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.

Adding the most new cases overall were Marion County, with 1,157 cases; Lake County, with 676 cases; and Clark County, with 530. Weekly case counts rose in 43 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Clark, Floyd and Allen counties.

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Across Indiana, cases fell in 46 counties, with the best declines in Lake County, with 676 cases from 776 a week earlier; in Tippecanoe County, with 180 cases from 237; and in St. Joseph County, with 330 cases from 381.

In Indiana, 49 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 28 people were reported dead.

A total of 1,764,876 people in Indiana have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 23,855 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 86,967,639 people have tested positive and 1,015,938 people have died.

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Indiana's COVID-19 hospital admissions rising

USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, June 26. Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:

  • Last week: 1,048

  • The week before that: 885

  • Four weeks ago: 823

Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:

  • Last week: 63,626

  • The week before that: 57,605

  • Four weeks ago: 54,872

Hospitals in 34 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 25 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 39 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Monroe County reported 183 additional COVID-19 cases this week