INDIANAPOLIS, Ind – The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Sunday, October 18, 2020, Clinton County had 1 new death related to COVID-19 and 4 new residents test positive for COVID-19, 801 residents in total have tested positive for COVID-19. There are 16 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 9,557 unique tests have been administrated to residents of Clinton County as reported by the ISDH.
The death is reported to have taken place on Saturday, October 17, 2020.
The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 8.2% as of October 11, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 11.4%.
Additionally, the ISDH announced that 1,629 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 147,582 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.
A total of 3,704 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.
To date, 1,555,437 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 1,554,927 on Saturday.
The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of October 17, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.
Total Hospitalizations: 58
Emergency Visits: 135
ICU Admits: 11
Hospital Deaths: 7
Statewide Recovery: 106,319 (81%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,654 (3%)
Statewide Active: 21,526 (16%)
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.
