COVID-19 Update: Iroquois County up to 84 cases

Six additional positive cases of coronavirus upped the number of cornfirmed cases to 84 in Iroquois County Thursday.  The county health department reported three more males and three females.  The six new cases folloow the 27 cases confirmed a day earlier.  The health department reports, of the 84 cases, 22 have recovered, six are hospitalized and 55 remain isolated at home.  One patient has passed away.

Ford County has 12 confirmed cases and a death.  Grundy County recorded its first death and has 60 cases confirmed. Kankakee County Public Health reported 36 new cases, now total at 543. 31 have died of related symptoms in Kankakee and 122 have recovered.

The state health department reported another 2,641 cases Thursday, including 138 deaths.  The IDPH has a total of 70,873 cases with 3,111 deaths. 

The Indiana State Department of Public Health has 22,503 people diagnosed.  There were 650 new cases announced Thursday.  Indiana has had 1,295 people die from the virus.  Newton County has 61 cases, 8 deaths. Jasper County has had 1 death and 37 cases.  White County is up to 130 cases, Benton County has 12.

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