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The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 6,143 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. That brings to 268,222 the number of Indiana residents now known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.

A total of 4,830 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 60 from the previous day. Another 254 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, 1,989,456 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 1,969,088 on Tuesday. A total of 3,668,049 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.

Marshall County reporting 80 new cases with 166 new individuals tested and 8.8 positivity rate.

To find other testing sites around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.