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DeKalb County Announces First COVID-19 Case In Over A Week
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Following the daily announcement by the Indiana State Department of Health, the DeKalb County Health Department on Tuesday confirmed a new case of COVID-19 in a DeKalb County resident, raising the total to 24. This marking the counties first positive case in over a week.

The latest patient is a 24-year-old woman who has fully recovered from her symptoms, according to a news release said which also marks the first time a new case in the county has been described as fully recovered.

DeKalb County has reported an age for 22 of its 24 virus patients. The average age of those 22 patients is 42 years. Only four are 60 years or older, and they range in age from 11 to 78.

Only three of the 24 total patients were reported to be hospitalized. DeKalb County has recorded only one death from a coronavirus patient, a 65-year-old man who died April 14 while hospitalized in Fort Wayne.



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