Indianapolis, Indiana — According to the Indiana Department of Health, 2,567 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 along with 57 additional deaths, and 6,615 new positive cases were reported in Indiana.
The agency’s dashboard puts the state’s 7-day all-test positivity rate at 26.2% with a rate of 41% positive for unique individuals.
The omicron variant is dominant in Indiana, according to state data, accounting for 85.5% of samples tested. Delta, which had previously been the dominant strain in the state, was found in 7.1% of samples tested.
According to the Indiana Department of Health, dashboard data represents cases and deaths that occurred over a range of dates but were reported to the state in the last 24 hours.
The agency said 2,102 additional Hoosiers are now fully vaccinated. To date, 3,738,352 first doses of the two-dose vaccine have been administered and 3,650,268 individuals are fully vaccinated. The state has administered more than 1.6 million booster doses.
For the third week in a row, the County Metric map shows all 92 Indiana counties in Red, with zero in the Orange, Yellow or Blue categories.
The map is updated each Wednesday. The weekly score is determined by each county’s Weekly Cases Per 100,000 residents and its 7-Day All Test Positivity Rate.
Since the start of the pandemic, the state has reported 1,642,625 total positive cases and 20,856 confirmed COVID-19 deaths. There are also 810 probable COVID-19 deaths in which a physician listed COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death but no positive test was documented.
The latest hospitalization numbers show 2,567 total COVID-19 patients: 2,305 confirmed and 262 under investigation. IDOH reported a record 3,519 COVID-19 hospitalizations on Jan. 13. Before the omicron surge, the previous highwater mark was 3,460 patients in late November 2020.
The department said 12.1% of ICU beds and 72.7% of ventilators are available across the state.