Indiana passes 1.7M confirmed COVID-19 cases, sees slight uptick since April 1

Indiana surpassed 1.7 million confirmed instances following its dashboard replace Wednesday, including its most up-to-date 100,000 new instances over the past 4 months.

Since April 1, Indiana has seen a small uptick in new instances.

In January, the state averaged 11,474.5 new instances per day. In February, that fell to 1,456.1 and March dropped to 241 new instances per day.

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However, there was a slight statewide uptick in new confirmed instances in April to this point, with the month’s common rising to 280 and the earlier week’s common at 453 new instances per day.

There’s a large caveat to those numbers: At-home checks usually are not reported to the Indiana Division of Well being. The state eradicated metrics like positivity charges, aligning with a nationwide push from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

However hospitalizations stay at almost pandemic-lows, with COVID-19 accounting for lower than 3 p.c of the state’s whole hospital census.

And in April to this point, Indiana has added simply 66 deaths to its whole, averaging fewer than three deaths per day – which is a pandemic report.

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