Coronavirus Claims Another Half-Dozen Lives In Evansville Area

Evansville IN

23 September, 2021

2:36 PM

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By John Gibson, WNIN Sept. 23, 2021 The Indiana Department of Health announced four more fatalities in Vanderburgh County, one in Warrick County, and one in Gibson County. Vanderburgh's pandemic death toll rose to 448, Warrick's climbed to 177, and Gibson's reached 107. The agency also recorded 119 new infections in Vanderburgh County on the Wednesday dashboard. More than 200 local residents joined the ranks of fully vaccinated while the county's seven-day positivity rate among individuals fell below 23 percent. The number of hospitalized COVID patients in the 12-county region of southwest Indiana continued to fall slowly to 227. That number was as low as 30 in June. Across Indiana, the agency recorded 72 more COVID-related deaths along with more than 3,900 new infections. Eleven more COVID-19 related deaths have been announced in western Kentucky. 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.