State health officials say nearly a quarter of Indiana residents age 16 and older are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Indiana Department of Health’s COVID-19 vaccination dashboard showed Wednesday that a total of 1,291,190 Hoosiers — or 23.7% of Indiana’s residents who are at least 16 — have been fully vaccinated. Another 1,827,696 first doses of vaccine have been administered statewide.
Locally, 11,447 residents in Kosciusko County have been fully vaccinated, while over 29,000 doses of the vaccine have now been administered.
If you would like to get yourself scheduled for a vaccine, visit the IDPH Vaccine website or you can call 2-1-1. Locally, you can call the local hotline run by the Bowen Center at 574-347-4256, which is open Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 7 PM. The Bowen Center hotline is bilingual in both English and Spanish.
Yellow Advisory Remains in Place
A slight uptick was seen in local COVID numbers with the latest county update on Wednesday afternoon.
The Indiana Department of Health kept Kosciusko County in a yellow advisory as cases per 100,000 were at 126, up from 111 one week ago, while the positivity rate is four percent, down from a recent peak of 4.4 percent last Wednesday.
All neighboring counties are back under a yellow advisory, but no counties have seen any significant increases in COVID numbers. Statewide, 1,260 new COVID cases were reported along with fifteen new deaths. The state positivity rate on the seven-day rolling average was 4.5 percent.
