Latest updates on Indiana coronavirus: US COVID-19 cases on the rise again, doubling in three weeks

INDIANAPOLIS – Here are the latest updates from Wednesday on the coronavirus pandemic, including the latest news on COVID-19 vaccination and testing in Indiana.

Vaccine registrations are now open for Hoosiers ages 12 and up across the Indiana State Department of Health. This story will be updated throughout the day with more news on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Marion County health officials have announced four pop-up vaccination clinics to be held over the next two weeks.

The first two clinics will be held on Monument Circle from July 14 to 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The second pair of clinics will be held next week, July 21-22, at the Birch Bayh Federal Building and the US Courthouse at 46 E. Ohio Street downtown. These clinics will also be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available at the clinic at no cost to any resident 18 years of age or older. No appointment is necessary.

The clinics are held as part of a partnership between the Marion County Department of Health and the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the Marion County Superior Court, the City of Indianapolis and Downtown Indy, Inc.

Los Angeles County reports the fifth day in a row of more than 1,000 new cases of the coronavirus.

Health officials warned Tuesday that the most contagious delta variant of the virus continues to spread rapidly among unvaccinated people in the state.

Los Angeles County is home to a quarter of California’s 40 million people. County officials have reported new cases totaling 1,103 for the previous 24 hours. County officials said the five-day case average is 1,095 – a jump of more than 500% in just one month.

The state, meanwhile, has reported 3,256 newly confirmed coronavirus infections – the highest one-day total since early March.

New COVID-19 cases per day in the United States have doubled in the past three weeks, due to the rapidly spreading delta variant, late vaccination rates and July 4 rallies. Infections jumped to an average of around 23,600 per day on Monday, from 11,300 on June 23. And all but two states – Maine and South Dakota – have reported that the number of cases has increased in the past two weeks. Some parts of the country are facing deep resistance to vaccines.

There were over 33.9 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been over 607,700 deaths in the United States

Globally, there have been over 187.8 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus with over 4.048 million deaths. More than 3.49 billion doses of vaccines have been administered worldwide.

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For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, it can cause more serious illnesses like pneumonia or death.

South Korea has confirmed 1,615 new patients with COVID-19, a new national record for daily cases, as authorities struggle to curb a viral resurgence that has placed its capital region under the strictest distancing rules.

The new cases reported on Wednesday brought the country’s total to 171,911 with 2,048 deaths.

Senior health official Lee Ki-Il told reporters that 1,179 of the new cases were from the Seoul metropolitan area, marking the first time the capital region has exceeded 1,000 daily cases since the start of the pandemic. .

Lee says the recently enforced strict distancing rules need at least a week to show effects. He urges the public to refrain from traveling or attending non-essential gatherings and to stay at home until next week.

Private gatherings of three or more people after 6 p.m. have been banned in the Seoul area since Monday. Nightclubs and other high-risk nightlife venues have also been ordered to close for two weeks.