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COVID-19 Cases Rising Locally

UPDATE:  10/2/20 @ 11:30am - the Indiana State Department of Health updatded their online numbers to include test results for October 1st.  Daily Positive tests for yesterday reached 38 postive results in La Porte County.  That's the highest number of single day positive cases since April 15th.

 

ORIGINAL STORY:

 

(Indianapolis, IN) - COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in La Porte County.  According to the Indiana State Department of Health, the percentage of people testing positive for the virus in La Porte County over the past seven days has risen to 5.6 percent.  Recently, the positivity rate in La Porte County had fallen to below three percent.

 

According the the state Coronavirus website, the number of Daily Positive Cases in La Porte County have been on the rise since September 23rd,  The current 7 day moving average is now at 22 new Daily Positive Cases.  According the data on the site, this marks the highest level of average Daily Positive Cases in the county since the Pandemic began.  The previous high mark came on August 24th when the daily average topped 15 cases. 

 

On Wednesday, the state reported 26 new cases in La Porte County.   The percentage of people testing positive has also gone up by similar amounts in Porter and St. Joseph counties.

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