Indiana’s COVID-19 deaths have jumped 40% in the past month, with health officials adding 143 coronavirus deaths to the state’s pandemic toll on Tuesday.

The Indiana Department of Health’s daily update showed coronavirus hospitalizations going back over 3,000 as of Monday after falling below that mark on Friday for the first time since Nov. 16.

The COVID-19 hospitalizations are down about 10% since peaking Nov. 30 but remain nearly four times higher than in September when the state’s illness surge began.

Health leaders have discouraged Christmas gatherings involving multiple households while warning it could be several months before the new vaccines become available to all residents.

Gov. Eric Holcomb and state health officials have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon briefing on the state’s coronavirus response.

Most of the state’s newly recorded deaths occurred in the past week, but some dated to mid-November.

Those deaths raised Indiana’s toll to 7,581, including victims with both confirmed and presumed infections.

The state’s seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths has grown to 80 per day after that average was in the low 40s in mid-November and below 10 per day during July.