State reports 78 new Covid-19 cases over weekend
Monday, the Indiana State Department of Health recorded 12 additional cases of Covid-19 in Dubois County. In addition, the state reported 45 cases on Saturday and the 21 cases on Sunday for a total of 78 new cases since Friday.
The total recorded number of cases in the county is 2,077.
There have been 29 deaths attributed to Covid-19.
The percentage of available ICU beds in District 10 — which includes Dubois, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Knox, Posey, Spencer, Daviess, Martin, Crawford, Perry, Pike, and Gibson counties — is 19.1 percent (251 total ICU beds available) with 39.5 percent being used by Covid-19 patients.
The seven-day positivity rate is 14.8 percent and the county is in the Orange designation. If it is 15 percent or higher, the county will move into the Red designation.
Last week, the Dubois County Health Department announced restrictions being put in place to slow the spread. The designation is based on the percentage of positive tests to the total number of tests over seven day period.
The Indiana Department of Health also announced that 5,218 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 256,744 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 4,686 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 26 from the previous day. Another 250 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by the state and occurred over multiple days.
*Case counts are updated over a seven day period and these numbers may be adjusted.
Testing:
For local testing, the site at 400 S. Clay St. in Jasper is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. It is closed on Sunday and Monday.
You can register for an appointment at https://scheduling.coronavirus.in.gov/. At the website, you will have to click “I don’t have an invitation code.”
If you do not have internet you can call the primary phone at 812-329-0523. If no one answers, leave a message and they will call you back.
Results should be available within 72 hours. If you do not get your results, you can call the Indiana State Department of Health at 1-877-826-0011.
Testing is for anyone who lives or works in Indiana. Anyone can be tested, even those not showing symptoms. There is no charge for the testing. However, if you do have private health care insurance, you are asked to bring that to the testing site.
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center also has a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site located at the former Old National Bank building next to Fazoli’s on the corner of Third Avenue and Rumbach Street in Jasper.
A physician/provider order and appointment time are required. Drive-thru times are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 hotline at 812-996-6330 with any questions.
You can also get evaluated for Covid-19 at the Memorial Urgent Care, 507 E. 19th Street, Huntingburg and at the Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in Jasper.
