Meanwhile, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that she had a recurring feeling of “impending doom” about a potential fourth wave of COVID-19 infections after cases in the U.S. rose 10% over the last week.
Statewide hospitalizations due to COVID-19 rose from 617 on Saturday to 655 on Sunday.
Basketball games in Visit Indy’s suite have a strong influence on convention planners because they accentuate a potential client’s experience in the city.
The announcement comes two days before Indiana opens vaccination sign-ups to Hoosiers 16 and older.
A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely.”
The state said more than 1.08 million Hoosiers had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Sunday. More than 1.6 million had received the first dose of a two-dose vaccination.
After rapidly dropping in January and February, daily case counts have risen slightly in March. The seven-day moving average of positive cases was 857 on Friday, up from 818 on March 1.
Since July, however, the hospital system has seen an “upward positive trend in all its services,” it said in a debt filing, the latest signal that the worst of the pandemic’s financial affects on hospitals might be over.
Statewide hospitalizations due to COVID-19 increased from 627 0n Wednesday to 637 on Thursday. The high mark was 3,460, set on Nov. 30.
The tickets will be available in groups of two or four, with capacity limited to 8,500, just like games played on the court throughout this year’s tournament.
Casino giant Caesars Entertainment Inc., which operates multiple properties in Indiana, is suing a long list of insurance carriers it accuses of balking at paying its business interruption costs.
Michigan, which not long ago had one of the country’s lowest COVID-19 infection rates, is confronting an alarming spike that some experts worry could be a harbinger nationally.
With thousands of visitors in town for the NCAA basketball tournament and other athletic events, occupancy rates at downtown Indianapolis hotels were the highest in the nation for the past two weekends, breaking the pandemic tourism setback that settled in a year ago.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Thursday reported 977 new cases of COVID-19.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said Thursday he plans to take a “common sense approach” to determining when the city will lift its restrictions through continued conversations with the Marion County Department of Public Health.
The organization said each Indiana venue was set up with artificial crowd noise to make up for the lower number of fans at each game due to the pandemic.
The second batch of payments sent out this week followed an initial 90 million payments made in the week after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID relief measure on March 11.
A day after the governor announced plans to relax precautions meant to stem COVID-19 spread, the state’s top health official cautioned Hoosiers that it’s still too early to return to “normal” life.
The Indiana Department of Health said up to 96,000 people could be vaccinated during the event.
Still, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Wednesday he isn’t ready to declare the nation has turned the corner on the outbreak.
