The $600 expires at the end of the month due to a provision in the federal CARES Act. If unemployed workers file for benefits on or before July 25, DWD said it will make the additional payments.

State contractor OptumServe Health Services was expected to have 50 testing sites operating around Indiana by the end of May. State health commissioner, Dr. Kristina Box, said Wednesday that the company had 35 testing sites open.

Many governors have ordered the release of certain inmates to help with social distancing in prisons. In Indiana, Gov. Eric Holcomb has resisted calls to do that, leaving it to county courts to depopulate prisons. Most of them haven't.

Indiana will extend its current capacity limits for restaurants and bars and other restrictions for at least another two weeks because of an increasing number of coronavirus cases across the state, Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday.

Indiana was set to move into its final phase this weekend. But several COVID-19 metrics -- including higher percentages of positive tests and more hospitalizations -- are trending in the wrong direction.

Some states are using COVID-19 infection rates to decide whether a school should resume classroom teaching or offer remote learning options -- so far Indiana does not.

The CDC and other health experts say wearing masks in public helps to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. But the debate over requiring people to wear them has become fraught, even in a Midwest town at the heart of an outbreak.

Indiana State Teachers Association called on Gov. Eric Holcomb to take a more direct role in how, or if, schools reopen for in-person teaching.

State Rep. Karlee Macer (D-Speedway) and State Sen. J.D. Ford (D-Indianapolis) spoke outside the Indiana Women's Prison on Saturday to highlight safety concerns connected to the facility's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jury trials being suspended since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic means a backlog of cases, including in southwestern Indiana.