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Wayne County Health Department has announced the third death of a Wayne County resident from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The patient was an adult male older than 70 who died April 22 at Reid Hospital in Richmond. No further information will be given about the individual due to privacy laws. Wayne County Health Department has […]

As of April 23, Wayne and Henry counties have 30 cases of COVID-19, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. Fayette County has 22 cases, and Randolph County has 14. Union County is the lowest in the area with 6, and Franklin County is the highest with 92. Marion County leads the state with […]

The Indiana Bankers Association is urging small businesses that have not already applied for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds to contact their banks now in preparation for a second round of funding. On April 21, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that includes more than $300 billion in additional PPP funds, with the House expected to […]

As Indiana is beginning to see its cases of COVID-19 reach a believed peak, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has asked local health departments to release the restriction of closing the lobby and the inside pick-up and ordering areas within food establishments. In order to still maintain the low COVID-19 numbers seen in Wayne County, establishments […]

Wayne County Health Department has depleted its inventory of N95 and surgical masks, face shields, gowns and goggles for local nursing homes and seeks more donations of those items for those local facilities. The county health department has been working with local nursing homes since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and has been issuing […]

Local health officials say they are pleased Gov. Eric Holcomb extended Indiana’s stay-at-home order until May 1 because of an increase in local COVID-19 cases. “We are glad he is extending the stay at home orders until May 1,” said Dr. David Jetmore, who is Wayne County’s health officer. “In Wayne County we have seen […]

As of 2:30 p.m. April 21, Reid has 50 lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in its eight-county service area. It has 52 patients in containment area and now has submitted 506 tests for processing. As of April 21, Indiana has 12,097 cases. There have been 630 deaths in the state, according to Indiana State Department of […]

Reid Health is working with Mayo Clinic in a program that will treat COVID-19 patients with plasma from recovered patients and seeks donations of that plasma from local residents. “Treatment with convalescent plasma is an old strategy that has been used for more than 100 years to convey passive immunity from someone who has recovered […]

As of April 20, Reid Health has had 50 lab-confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and has 51 patients in containment areas of the hospital. Reid has submitted 472 tests, but studies have shown a relatively high “false negative” outcome. As of April 20, Indiana has 11,686 cases. There have been 569 deaths in the state, […]

On Friday morning, Wayne County has increased its number of COVID-19 cases and has now had its second death. Wayne County Health Department has received a total of 23 presumptive positive cases among Wayne County residents. Wayne County Health Officer Dr. David Jetmore said the resident, who was in her late 80s, died outside a […]