INDIANAPOLIS — All 92 of Indiana’s counties have reached the highest-risk level for COVID-19 spread for the first time since state health officials began releasing a statewide risk map during the pandemic.
Indiana’s color-coded coronavirus risk map on the Indiana Department of Health’s dashboard showed that as of Jan. 20 the entire state was in the highest-risk red category, which indicates very high community spread of COVID-19.
Eighty-one counties were rated in the red category last week.
The entire state entered that highest-risk category as the spread of the highly-contagious omicron variant continues, with that variant accounting for 74.3% of Indiana’s coronavirus cases recorded in January.
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