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A second Hoosier dies of the coronavirus

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, gray, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) today announced that a second Hoosier has died from COVID-19.

The patient is a Johnson County adult over age 60 who had been hospitalized. Due to privacy laws no other information about the patient is expected to be released.

ISDH has also identified six new positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 30. All have been diagnosed through either the ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and private laboratories. The new cases have been disgnosed in Lake, Franklin and Marion counties.

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