The Indiana Department of Health Friday announced that 5,563 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 488,180 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 7,431 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 40 from the previous day. Another 339 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by the state and occurred over multiple days.
To date, 2,586,165 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 2,572,545 on Thursday. A total of 5,484,835 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.