Johnson County recorded its fourth death Wednesday, an 87 year old, said Betsy Swearingen, director of the Johnson County Health Department.
The county health department didn’t have any additional details about the death Wednesday morning, she said.
Sixteen more Hoosiers have died from coronavirus-related illnesses, raising the state’s virus death toll to 65 as its confirmed cases surged by more than 400, state health officials said Wednesday.
Indiana’s number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, grew by 409, to 2,565, following corrections to the previous day’s total, the Indiana State Department of Health said.
That includes 10 more confirmed cases in Johnson County, bringing the local total to 124, Swearingen said.
The state health department noted that Indiana’s 16 additional deaths reported Wednesday had occurred over multiple days.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said Tuesday, when the state reported 14 additional deaths, that those deaths had occurred over the previous two weeks. The state health department only reports additional deaths once there is a confirmed positive test for COVID-19 in each case, she said.
Nearby Marion County had 159 of the state’s new coronavirus cases reported Wednesday. Indianapolis and the seven counties surrounding it account for 63% of Indiana’s confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 1,117 cases alone in Marion County.
Wednesday’s state update shows that only nine of Indiana’s 92 counties have no coronavirus cases.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
