COVID-19 activity has slowed a lot in 2021 amid rising vaccinations and lower overall transmission, but numbers are still rising.

Earlier this month, the state passed 50% of all Hoosiers having been tested for COVID-19 at least once, but on Sunday Indiana topped 10 million total tests.

Testing has slowed in recent months as more and more people become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — people who reach full vaccination status don’t need to be tested if they’re exposed to someone positive for the virus — but also as cases have dropped sharply.

The state was administering an average of about 45,000 tests per day in November and December 2020 when the virus was hitting its all-time peaks and stayed close in January at about 43,000 tests per day.

Testing numbers have been in decline since, however, falling to about 36,000 per day in February and then 28,000 per day in March and April. So far in May, daily testing numbers are down a little more, to about 26,000 per day.

The decrease in cases over the last few months hasn’t been driven solely by a decrease in testing as evidenced by the positivity rates. Positivity was about 12% in November and December, compared to sub-5% numbers over the past three months. So although testing has decreased, the proportion of tests still being done coming back positive has been substantially lower.

Most tests being conducted nowadays are retests on people who have been swabbed at least once before. On average, fewer than one in five tests being done are on someone who has never been tested before.

As for deaths, Indiana passed another centennial mark, rising to 13,003 deaths all time as of Sunday.

The state passed 12,000 deaths on Feb. 23, so it’s been about two and a half months since hitting the last thousand point.

Deaths from COVID-19 have plummeted in 2021, coinciding with rising vaccination rates across the state.