References to Indiana county - coded reds and oranges and coronavirus dashboards have been fewer in recent days. That appears to be changing as half of Indiana’s counties are now in the highest-risk level of COVID-19 spread and hospitalizations are reportedly up 25% in the past week.
The Indiana Department of Health says 46 of the state’s 92 counties are in the highest-risk red category. All other counties in the state are listed as orange except for Crawford in extreme southern Indiana which is in the lower-risk yellow.
Putnam County remains orange with border counties Morgan and Parke. Owen, Clay, Hendricks and Montgomery have gone red.
It's the largest number of high-risk counties since last winter when 73 had red ratings in early January. Indiana only had three counties in red when the month of November started.
