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Dozens of Indiana schools are struggling to stay open as growing numbers of coronavirus infections and related quarantines exacerbate a preexisting statewide teacher and substitute shortage. As of last Monday, 1,755 schools across the state have reported at least one positive case of COVID-19, according to the Indiana State Department of Health’s weekly data update. That brings the statewide total...

State health officials have released a first look at Indiana’s plan for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine, whenever one becomes available.

Northwest Indiana, as well as the state as a whole, reported record-breaking average caseloads Monday as positivity rates continued to rise sharply. The state is averaging more than 1,100 cases daily, which is 65% higher than the level Indiana reached when the virus saw its first peak in early May, an NBC 5 Investigates analysis found. In Northwest Indiana, which…

 A northwestern Indiana city wants to install a facial recognition video network camera system downtown in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The step comes as state health officials on Friday added 13 more COVID-19 deaths to the state’s pandemic toll. The newly recorded deaths raise the state’s death toll to 3,656, including confirmed and presumed coronavirus...