COLUMBUS, Ind. – The latest COVID-19 Community Task Force spread metrics update for Bartholomew County is now available and the numbers are encouraging. Both hospitalization and positive cases are down significantly over the last few weeks, according to the Indiana State Department of Health and Columbus Regional Health.
On January 17, there were 70 people hospitalized locally with COVID-19, and as of Thursday morning, that number had steadily fallen to 22. The number of daily positive cases of the disease had also shrunk from 326 two weeks ago to just 49 on Tuesday.
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