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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR/TEGNA/AP)– Wednesday’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic.
White House Coronavirus Job Force upgrade
The White Home Coronavirus Task Force is providing an upgrade on the national response to the pandemic.
Click here to watch live.
Gov. Holcomb state action update
Governor Eric Holcomb and state leaders provided an update on the response to COVID-19
Indiana Housing and Community Advancement Authority
The Indiana Real Estate and Neighborhood Development Authority has actually released a resource guide to assist Hoosiers work with lenders and landlords as they deal with economic hardships.
It has actually reopened Indiana’s Most difficult Struck Fund which makes approximately $30 million available for home mortgage payment assistance. That can imply as much as 6 months of payment support.
You can call 877- get-hope or go to 877 gethope.org.
Next Level Links Broadband
Next Level Connections is investing $100 million to link Hoosiers. It has currently awarded more than $28 million to link some 11,000 homes across 18 counties.
Applications for round 2 are due by May 26 and some $70 million in financing will be offered.
Workplace of Community & Rural Affairs
The Office of Community & Rural Affairs released the “COVID-19 Reaction Program” on April 1.
It repurposes $4.5 million in Community Development Block Grants to help small and rural communities react to the crisis.
Up until now 13 communities have actually gotten nearly $2 million in grants for testing and diagnostic services, meal and supply delivery, and to offer capital to small companies for task retention.
- Town of Lacrosse
- Cass County
- Tippecanoe County
- Logansport
- Town of Bargersville
- Town of North Manchester
- Noble County
- Fulton County
- City of Delphi
- City of Knox
- Town of Hebron
- Pike County
- City of Greensburg
Proposed expense would cancel lease, home loans
A costs presented by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wants to cancel rent and home mortgage payments nationwide for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lease and Mortgage Cancellation Act would develop complete lease payment forgiveness, without any build-up of financial obligation for occupants or house owners, despite earnings. The legislation would also establish a relief fund for property owners and mortgage holders to cover losses from the canceled payments.
” The coronavirus crisis is more than simply a public health crisis– it’s a recession,” Rep. Omar said in a declaration. “We need to take major action to safeguard the health and economic security of the most susceptible, including the countless Americans currently at threat of real estate instability and homelessness.”
If approved, the costs would be retroactive to March 13, 2020, and would last for as much as one year.
ISDH upgraded COVID numbers in the state
The Indiana State Department of Health is reporting 394 new verified cases of COVID-19 in the state, amounting to 12,438 Thirty-one more individuals passed away from the infection between April 2 to April 21, bringing Indiana’s overall deaths to 661.
According to ISDH, the new confirmed cases and new tests reported are lower than expected due to an innovation issue and “need to not be translated as a decline in brand-new infections.” The number of cases in both those classifications will be included to the updates in the coming days.
Marion County had the most brand-new cases with 97.
Other counties with more than 10 new cases were:
- Cass (31)
- Hamilton (12)
- Lake (72)
- Porter (10)
- St. Joseph (21)
So far more than 69,000 Hoosiers have actually been tested for coronavirus.
Most current United States, world numbers
There were more than 825,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States by 4 a.m. ET Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 45,000 deaths in the U.S., with more than 75,000 total healings. More than 4 million tests have actually been performed nationwide.
Worldwide, there have been 2.5 million cases and almost 177,000 deaths. More than 687,000 individuals have recovered around the world.
For most people, the infection triggers mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, that clean up in 2 to 3 weeks. For some, specifically older grownups and people with existing health problems, it can trigger more extreme health problem or death.
2 people died from infection weeks prior to 1st US death reported
Health officials say 2 individuals died from the coronavirus in California weeks prior to the first reported death in the United States from the disease.
Santa Clara County officials said Tuesday individuals died in your home Feb. 6 and Feb.17 The very first reported death in the nation from the infection was on Feb. 29 in Kirkland, Washington.
The Medical Examiner-Coroner received confirmation Tuesday that tissue samples sent out to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance checked positive for the virus, officials stated.
The statement came after California Gov. Gavin Newsom assured a “deep dive” upgrade Wednesday of the state’s ability to test for the coronavirus and to track and isolate people who have it. That is among the 6 indicators he says is crucial to lifting a “stay-at-home” order that has actually slowed the spread of the disease while requiring millions of people to apply for welfare.
” This will go to the apparent concerns and inquiries that everybody are asking: When? … When do you see a little bit of a release in the valve so that we can blurt a little of this pressure,” Newsom stated Tuesday.
China reported no new deaths
China on Wednesday again reported no new deaths from the coronavirus but signed up 30 more cases– 23 of them brought from abroad.
Of the domestic cases, all seven were reported in Heilongjiang province near the Russian border where a field medical facility has actually been set up to handle a new flare-up related to people getting back from abroad. Just over 1,000 individuals are hospitalized for treatment, while about the very same number are under isolation and monitoring as either presumed cases or after testing favorable but showing no symptoms.
China has actually reported a total of 4,632 deaths amongst 82,788 cases, the bulk of them in Wuhan where authorities recently raised the death toll by 50 percent after an evaluation of records.
