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INDIANAPOLIS â Indianaâs governor is reimposing restrictions on hospitals from performing elective surgeries to free up hospital capacity with the stateâs steep recent increases in serious COVID-19 illnesses.
Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday that hospitals were being directed to postpone all non-urgent in-patient surgeries from Dec. 16 through Jan. 3.
Holcomb said Indiana is âon fireâ with coronavirus spread as the number of Indiana counties with the highest risk level of coronavirus spread more than doubled in the state health departmentâs weekly update. The tracking map labels 36 of the stateâs 92 counties the most dangerous red category, up from 16 a week ago. All other counties are in the next riskiest, orange, rating.