Update (1/23/21): 10 New Clinton County Residents Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Reported By The ISDH

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Saturday, January 23, 2021, Clinton County recorded 10 new residents who tested positive for COVID-19, 3,730 residents in total have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 43 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 45,064 total tests have been administered to residents of Clinton County, of which 16,774 have been unique tests as reported by the ISDH.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 16.2% as of January 16, 2021. The State of Indiana as a whole is 18.6%.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of all tests for Clinton County is 8.9% as of January 16, 2021. The State of Indiana as a whole is 10.1%.

The ISDH shows a total of 1,742 Clinton County residents have received the first dose of vaccination and 205 are fully vaccinated. Statewide, 418,892 Hoosiers have received the first dose of vaccination, and 94,461 are fully vaccinated as of 1/23/2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 3,188 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and private laboratories. That brings to 608,519 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 9,317 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 2,890,956 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 2,879,896 on Friday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of January 22, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 222
Emergency Visits: 495
ICU Admits: 46
Hospital Deaths: 26

Statewide Recovery: 389,773 (90%)
Statewide Deceased: 9,317 (2%)
Statewide Active: 32,170 (8%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

The Clinton County Health Department currently has two (2) testing sites operating at the fairgrounds; Optum and the ISDH Community Test Site both inside the Edward Jones Building at the Clinton County Fairgrounds located at 1701 S Jackson St, Frankfort, IN.

Optum runs from 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday (not open on holidays) and the ISDH Community Test Site runs from 12 noon to 6 pm Monday through Friday.

The Optum testing site breaks for lunch from 12 noon to 12:30 pm each day with an afternoon break from 3 pm to 3:30m. There are NO appts scheduled for Optum during 12-12:30 or 3-3:30 pm for this site and no walk-ins taken during those break times.

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

Brett W. Todd is the managing editor of Clinton County Today. Clinton County Today is a community-focused website to provide individuals of Clinton County Indiana and surrounding areas with information impacting their lives. Clinton County Today is a service of Progressive Partners of Indiana, LLC where Brett W. Todd is its managing member.