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While weeks ago, nearly entire state was under the worse-possible red rating with coronavirus infections, several counties have shifted to the orange and yellow designations.
Lake County has shifted to the orange rating, indicating there are 100 to 199 new cases per 100,000 residents each week.
Lake County continues to have the second-highest death toll in the state.
Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties, and indeed all 92 Indiana counties, remain at the highest "red" classification because the reduced COVID-19 case counts still represent "high community spread."
Last Friday, Lake County reported 1,517 deaths, meaning an additional 63 people have died of the virus in a seven-day period. This week, data shows a total of 1,580 deaths