State leaders continue to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine as cases decline and as the National Guard leaves nursing homes after helping them manage disease spread.Â
Gov. Eric Holcomb announced these and other updates in a weekly briefing on the pandemic, starting with good news: Indiana’s COVID-19 positivity trend is declining, going from 16.5% early this month to 9.1%. Daily hospital admissions are also dropping, though more data are being collected.
Hoosiers continue to die from the virus, however, with the state recording 40 new deaths Wednesday. That’s an increase of 200 from last week, totaling 9,470 deaths in Indiana. The state is also bracing for new strains of the virus that have emerged around the world.