INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – For the third straight day, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced, in its Friday update, that over 5000 new Hoosiers had contracted COVID-19. Friday’s total was 5315. Since the pandemic began, 1,150,899 residents have been infected.
ISDH says 49 recent deaths were also confirmed, and now 17,400 Indiana citizens have died from coronavirus.
Bartholomew County has verified 13,437 cases, Jackson County reports 7,915, Jennings County confirms 4,659, and Johnson County has had 28,348 cases of COVID-19.