INDIANAPOLIS â Northeast Indiana is now becoming the stateâs biggest COVID-19 hotspot, with three of four counties in our local area now rated orange, representing high spread of COVID-19.
Five of the seven counties rated orange this week are located in the northeast corner of the state, even as most of Indiana is showing low spread of the virus.
Indiana, as a whole, looks better overall this week, but northern Indiana continues to struggle with higher COVID-19 activity.
A week after Steuben County turned in an orange rating, that county was joined by LaGrange and DeKalb counties, which both saw their ratings drop this past week.
Updated: 4:02 p.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Fully vaccinated Ohioans no longer have to quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19, Gov. Mike DeWine announced during a Tuesday press conference.
“Fully vaccinated” means two weeks after the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two weeks after the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
The change to the statewide health order will especially impact students, DeWine said, who may have had to miss sporting events or extracurricular activities due to being exposed to the virus.
“If they were exposed outside of the classroom to someone, they had to quarantine, and we ve had our students who have missed big athletic events, might be missing a debate,” he said.
AP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gives an update at MetroHealth Medical Center on the state s preparedness and education efforts to limit the potential spread of a new virus which caused a disease called COVID-19, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Cleveland.
Fully vaccinated Ohioans no longer have to quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19, Gov. Mike DeWine announced during a Tuesday press conference.
“Fully vaccinated” means two weeks after the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two weeks after the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
The change to the statewide health order will especially impact students, DeWine said, who may have had to miss sporting events or extracurricular activities due to being exposed to the virus.
INDIANAPOLIS â For the first time in about a month, state health officials gave an update on COVID-19 activity in Indiana and ongoing vaccination efforts, keeping up calls for Hoosiers to get their vaccines to help put down the pandemic.
Wednesdayâs statewide press conference, which didnât include Gov. Eric Holcomb who was off at a business expansion announcement with Toyota in Princeton, was the first since March 31.
Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box started off the by noting there were no major announcements, âjust a lot of good information.â
The focus, however, as it has been for most of 2021, was on vaccines, as Indiana has approached about 1.8 million people who are now fully vaccinated, representing 33% of the stateâs eligible population.
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