Indiana Department of Health officials announced 1,136 COVID cases and 20 related deaths Friday.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana public health officials announced 977 new COVID-19 cases and 20 additional deaths on Friday. Overall,12,596 Indiana residents have died from COVID-19 and 682,099 have contracted it since the start of the pandemic. Health officials say the latest recorded seven-day positive COVID-19 test rate in the state is 3.4%. Health officials say there have been more than 8.7 million tests administered. Gary will keep its mask mandate in place even as the rest of the state moves to an advisory on April 6, ending the mask mandate. Mayor Jerome Prince said Gary will extend the requirement another two weeks. His team will then use COVID-19 metrics to decide how and when to ease the order.
