The Montgomery County Health Department confirmed one additional positive case of COVID-19 on Monday morning, bringing the total in Montgomery County to 23 positive cases.
Health department staff is currently conducting one new contact investigation in connection with the latest patient. To date, 214 tests have been conducted on local residents and no deaths have been linked to the coronavirus.
Indiana’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 350 people as state health officials on Monday reported seven additional deaths.
The family of a Fountain County man hospitalized with the virus reported that he had died Saturday. His death brings Fountain County’s COVID-19 death toll to two. Fountain County has had three confirmed cases. Sixty-three people have been tested there.
The latest deaths added to the state’s tally occurred between Friday and Sunday but represent a slowdown in fatalities since Indiana recorded at least 17 daily deaths for 10 straight days through Thursday.
Indiana’s first reported COVID-19 death occurred on March 16 and have mounted since then. Dr. Kristina Box, the state health commissioner, has said Indiana’s illness peak could continue into mid-May. Indiana’s coronavirus death total in less than a month is already more than the some 150 average flu deaths over a seven-month period.
The state health department also reported Monday that an additional 331 people had confirmed cases of COVID-19, increasing Indiana’s total cases to more than 8,200 in all 92 counties.
The Terre Haute Fire Department said one of its firefighters died Sunday from COVID-19 complications. John Schoffstall, 41, was an 11-year veteran of the department. Several fire engines escorted a hearse carrying his body from a Terre Haute hospital to a funeral home on Sunday.
Updates and other information is available on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website (www.coronavirus.gov) or the Indiana State Department of Health website (www.in.gov/coronavirus).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
