The road ahead is still a long one.
Friday afternoon, the St. Joseph County Health Department held a press conference with the county’s Response Coordinator, Jeff Rea.
Dr. Mark Fox of the St. Joseph County Health Department said that Indiana expects its peak of COVID-19 cases to arrive on April 19.
As of Friday afternoon, the state had received test results for nearly 18,000 Hoosiers, with 3,437 of those tests coming back positive. More than a third of those are in Marion County and Indianapolis.
St. Joseph County has reported 72 positive tests, and one death.