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TOP STORY OF THE DAY, brought to you free by WICU: Improvement sends Clay County to 'orange' level
The spread of the COVID-19 virus in Clay County has decreased enough in the past two weeks to change the Advisory Category to ORANGE Wednesday. The county has been in the RED Advisory Category since December 30, 2020.
The Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard showing the spread of the virus was in the RED category across the state reached a total of 75 out of 92 counties, with 17 in ORANGE Monday.
On Wednesday, during Gov. Eric Holcomb’s weekly press conference on the state’s COVID-19 response, State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box cited the improvement across the state health department’s dashboard as hopeful.
Holcomb said the downward trend is going “in the right direction,” with five counties currently in RED, eight counties in YELLOW, and the rest in ORANGE.
The ISDH provides a color-coded state map using blue (score of 0-.5), yellow (score of 1-1.5), orange (score of 2-2.5), and red (score of 3) tones to designate the risk factor of the virus spreading among the 92 counties. It updates each Wednesday, using data from the previous two weeks to determine the status (www.coronavirus.in.gov).
Health data for Clay County currently shows a steady drop to 13.3% 7-Day Unique Positivity Rate among the unique people tested – those not previously tested (at 10,241)- during Jan.15-21, 2020, while the overall 7-Day Positivity rating of all test data is 10.5%.