COVID-19 Local Update & BACK ON TRACK INDIANA information with details about reopening WORSHIP SERIVECES

Thursday, May 7, 2020

By Times Reporter IVY JACOBS, Clay County Health Department, Indiana State Health Department, Centers for Disease Control and Revention

Clay County now has 24 confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to information provided by the Clay County Health Department Thursday.

Officials confirm the two new patients diagnosed since Monday are currently in self-isolation at their homes, along with five other patients in the county. The other 16 COVID-19 cases confirmed since March have recovered, with one death reported on April 20, 2020. Further details about patients diagnosed with COVID-19 are not released due to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Local health officials confirm 291 Clay County residents have been tested as of May 7.

https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/

Indiana Updates as of May 7, 2020

The Indiana State Department of Health reports confirms 22,503 positive cases among the 6.7 million residents in Indiana, with 124,782 residents tested, and the reported deaths at 1,295.

The state is also providing new information regarding probable deaths caused by COVID-19. These deaths, 119 as of Thursday, are those for which a physician listed COVID-19 as a contributing cause based on X-rays, scans, and other clinical symptoms, but the patient did not receive a positive test, and there is no testing record available.

https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/

COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2020

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is closely monitoring a pandemic of the 2019 novel (new) coronavirus or COVID-19, which began March 6. This new respiratory virus was first identified in the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province and continues to infect people in China and around the world, including the United States.

The first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in a Hoosier with recent travel. On March 16, ISDH reported the first death in Indiana due to COVID-19.

TESTING per county - https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/

A dashboard of information from the ISDH is provided daily on the Indiana government website (coronavirus.in.gov), and Gov. Eric Holcomb provides daily briefings Monday-Friday at 2:30 p.m. about what is happening and the impact on Indiana and its residents to the public on the website and various social media websites, including The Brazil Times.

More information about the national and worldwide impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic is available at the CDC website at cdc.gov/coronavirus and the World Health Organization at who.int.