Vanderburgh Vaccinations Top 81,000; Positivity Rate Up To 18.9%

Evansville IN

15 July, 2021

10:33 AM

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By John Gibson, WNIN July 15, 2021 More than 81,000 Vanderburgh County residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Indiana Department of Health added 241 new vaccinations in the county on the Monday dashboard. The agency also recorded eleven more COVID-19 infections in Vanderburgh, with the seven-day positivity rate among individuals up to nearly 19 percent. The county's pandemic death toll held at 402. The number of hospitalized COVID patients in the 12-county district of southwest Indiana fell slightly to 32. Across Indiana, it was a rare day of no new COVID-related deaths but more than 150 new infections. The statewide number of hospitalized COVID patients slipped to just below 400. A COVID-19 testing site serving three southern Indiana counties is closing, but health officials say it's not due to a lack of demand. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.