March had the lowest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Elkhart County since last April.
Eight county residents died from the disease in March, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. The only months during the pandemic to have fewer COVID-19 deaths were last April, when seven people lost their lives to the virus, and last March, when two people died. The county’s first COVID-19 death occurred on March 29, 2020.
Despite the decreasing number of deaths, local officials are troubled that multiple other indicators are trending in the wrong direction.
Click here to see the full story from Rasmus S. Jorgensen in the Elkhart Truth.
The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Elkhart County doubled in March, and the number of COVID-19 inpatients at local hospitals grew from five to 30 in the same period.
Simultaneously, the county’s positive test rate has increased from 5 percent to 7 percent, and two new coronavirus variants, both more contagious than the original, were discovered in the county in March.
