INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials say seven more people have died of coronavirus-related illnesses the state. That brings Indiana's virus death toll to 31 compared to three deaths a week earlier.
The Indiana State Department of Health said Saturday that Indiana's number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 grew by 290 to 1,232.
The state's number of confirmed cases has surged nearly 10 times what was reported a week earlier even as testing remains largely limited to those seriously ill and medical workers.
The state health commissioner said Friday Indiana's peak of coronavirus illnesses is expected in mid- to late April.
Indiana’s two top state officials have started working apart as cases of the coronavirus illness continue to grow rapidly. A spokeswoman for Gov. Eric Holcomb said Saturday that the governor and Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch “mutually agreed to be in different locations to socially distance themselves."
The spokeswoman says neither has been tested for the COVID-19 illness so far and both have been feeling healthy. Holcomb and Crouch both attended a Statehouse news conference on Wednesday.
The governor's office didn’t immediately provide information about when the two officials were last together and whether Crouch remained in Indianapolis or had gone to her home in Evansville.
