Coronavirus Testing Expansion Planned in Vanderburgh County

Coronavirus Testing Expansion Planned in Vanderburgh County

The board-- a new effort is underway to increase the number of tests in a specific evansville zip code-- 44news reporter erran huber joins us with more on how health officials-- are bringing covid-19 tracing to a hyper- local level.

Covid-19 continues its impact in vanderburgh county-- but that impact-- isn't the same across the board.

Certain groups of people are proving to be more vulnerable to the risk of infection.

So a new effort is underway "we have noticed with our statistics that our minority population in the zip code of 47714 does need to maybe increase testing.

So there were funds appropriated for that, and that will be upcoming in july."

Testing--being brought to the neighborhood level.

The area bordered by south kentucky avenue, i-69, south green river road, and the lloyd expressway.

But meant to keep infection from everyone in the county as people move around the evansville area.

Health officials also shared that they're seeing a local trend-- of people ages