GOSHEN — Joined by Elkhart County leaders in government, health and industry, Elkhart County Health Officer Dr. Bethany Wait kicked off a vaccination campaign Monday in front of the Elkhart County Courthouse.

INDIANAPOLIS — State health officials will host a virtual media briefing at 2:30 p.m. today to provide updates on COVID-19 and vaccination efforts. Speaking will be State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver.

GOSHEN — Elkhart County’s COVID numbers have been rising since the beginning of March, and have steadily climbed since Gov. Eric Holcomb announced in late March the state would lift restrictions to an advisory level on April 6.

ELKHART — Tuesday morning at the Tolson Community and Youth Center, both local and state health officials held a press conference urging more and more community members to get vaccinated.

ELKHART — Elkhart County Health Officer Dr. Bethany Wait reported Wednesday that another variant was found in Elkhart County this weekend by the Indiana Department of Health Laboratory.

GOSHEN — Health care workers at Goshen Health were presented with the city’s top honors Monday for their service to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon.

Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that the statewide mask mandate would be downgraded to an advisory on April 6 along with all COVID-19 capacity restrictions.

INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosiers ages 40 and older will be eligible to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday, the Indiana Department of Health announced today. This expansion of eligibility to include those ages 40 to 44 will make the vaccine available to more than 400,000 additional Hoosiers.

With more than half of all state residents eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, getting Hoosiers to take the vaccine becomes the next obstacle for pandemic recovery.

ELKHART — The Elkhart County Health Department was notified by the Indiana Department of Health Laboratory that the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant was collected in Elkhart County this weekend.

In the year since Bette Mathias had gone to church much had changed — masks, hand sanitizer and social distancing replaced the hugging she remembered but, after so much time away, it was welcomed.

GOSHEN — Elkhart County’s health officer believes one variant of the COVID-19 virus is present in the county, but no testing has confirmed that.

GOSHEN — Exhaustion. Brain fog. Shortness of breath. Rapid heart rate.

Educators and Hoosiers with select comorbidities will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, a slight departure from the state’s age-based approach.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon.

GOSHEN — Local businesses will no longer face the possibility of fines if COVID-19 health orders are violated in the county. At the same time, the county government has also launched a program to help residents who have been struggling financially as a result of the pandemic.

GOSHEN — Elkhart County Health Officer Bethany Wait urged caution Friday following reports that the county’s steady decline in positive COVID-19 cases in recent weeks appears to have stalled somewhat over the past week.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. You can watch the livestream here.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. Watch it live here.

Inclement weather across the United States has impacted the delivery of vaccines to states. Local health officers have their fingers crossed vaccines will arrive in the nick of time.

GOSHEN — While Elkhart County’s COVID-19 positivity rate has been dropping in recent weeks, K-12 school-sponsored events and extracurricular activities in the county will not be seeing any changes to their current virus mitigation policies, at least for the time being.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. You can watch that briefing here.

GOSHEN — While keeping COVID-19 restrictions in place until at least 70% of the adult population has been vaccinated is the general goal of the local medical community, Elkhart County Health Officer Bethany Wait noted Friday that it’s possible the county’s restrictions could be lifted prior …

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. Watch it here.

Up until recently, Elkhart County had three locations to get vaccines: the health department, Goshen Hospital and Elkhart General Hospital. Recently, two more were added: Maple City Health/Vista in Goshen and Heart City Health in Elkhart.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. View the briefing here.

Elkhart County is expected to move to level yellow on the Indiana Department of Health’s metrics map today.

Elkhart, Noble, LaGrange, Kosciusko, St. Joseph and Marshall counties are all now at level orange on the Indiana Department of Health’s metrics map.

The Elkhart County Health Department recently received permission from the Indiana Department of Health to have a mobile vaccination clinic. The first one is Saturday.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana at 2:30 this afternoon. You can watch that update live here.

ELKHART — Dr. Michelle Bache, vice president of medical affairs for Elkhart General Hospital, said in a recorded interview Friday that COVID-19 rates have dropped significantly at EGH, about 60%, since November.

ALBION — With Noble County moving to level red on the Indiana Department of Health’s metrics map, the Noble County Health Department announced new countywide restrictions.

GOSHEN — The Indiana Department of Health opened up vaccinations to those 70 and older Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health today announced that a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been identified in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS — State officials announced Wednesday that vaccine allocation would prioritize those most at risk for hospitalization and death from COVID-19, starting with those ages 80 and older.

GOSHEN — Vaccinations for those age 80 and older could begin as early as today across the state. In Elkhart, LaGrange and Noble counties, vaccinations will likely begin Monday at local health department sites.