Indianapolis, Indiana — According to The Indiana Department of Health, 304 new COVID-19 cases and 15 additional deaths were reported in Indiana.
The agency’s dashboard puts the 7-day all-test positivity rate at 2.6%. The state is no longer displaying data for unique individual positivity rates and total tested individuals.
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 omicron variant was found in 99.7% of samples tested statewide.
The agency said 651 additional Hoosiers are now fully vaccinated. To date, the state has administered more than 1.7 million booster doses, and said 3,694,957 individuals are fully vaccinated.
The County Metric map shows 14 Indiana counties in Yellow and 78 in the Blue category. There were zero in the Orange or Red 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.
The latest hospitalization numbers show 443 total COVID-19 patients: 274 confirmed and 169 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.
Indiana has reported 22,337 deaths and 1,688,240 cases since the start of the pandemic. There are also 913 probable COVID-19 deaths in which a physician listed COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death but no positive test was documented.
The department said 22.9% of ICU beds and 82.9% of ventilators are available across the state.
