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WAYNE COUNTY SEES 3rd STRAIGHT WEEK OF SLIGHT COVID-19 INCREASES

(Wayne County, IN)--For the third straight week, there’s been a very slight uptick in the number of weekly cases of Covid-19 in Wayne County.  Since last Monday, Wayne County has added 39 new cases.  But, after slowly increasing in the last week, the county’s positivity rate has taken a substantial drop and was at just 2.3% Monday morning.  Fayette County’s is even lower at 1.3%.  But Union County’s rate is high.  It was just under six percent Monday morning.  There are 11 patients in Reid Health’s containment areas.