Vanderburgh Vaccinations And Infections Still Rising

Evansville IN

28 August, 2021

9:36 AM

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By John Gibson, WNIN Aug. 28, 2021 COVID-19 infections and vaccinations continue to climb in Vanderburgh County. The Indiana Department of Health counted 159 new COVID cases in the county, raising the local pandemic total above 26,500. New full vaccinations outnumbered infections, with 207 on the Thursday dashboard. More encouraging data: no new COVID-related deaths were added in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Gibson, Posey, Pike, Dubois, or Spencer counties. But seven-day positivity rates remained high -- at about 29 percent in Vanderburgh County. The number of hospitalized COVID patients in the 12-county region of southwest Indiana stood at 244. Across Indiana, a dozen more virus-related deaths were added and for a second straight day, new infections topped 5,000. The statewide seven-day positivity rate among individuals stood at 18 percent. 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.