200 More Coronavirus Vaccinations In Vanderburgh County

Evansville IN

20 July, 2021

4:50 PM

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By John Gibson, WNIN July 20, 2021 200 more Vanderburgh County residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Indiana Department of Health says 81,798 county residents are now fully vaccinated. The agency also tallied a dozen new infections in the county on the Monday dashboard. Vanderburgh's seven-day positivity rate among individuals held at 8.5 percent. The number of hospitalized COVID patients in the 12-county region of southwest Indiana rose to 46. There were no new COVID-related deaths recorded across Indiana but the state did see 285 more infections. Indiana's seven-day positivity rate among individuals remained lower than Vanderburgh County's – 5.1 percent. Health experts say the vast majority of people being infected with the virus' delta variant are unvaccinated. 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.