(La Porte County, IN) - School buildings will be continue to be open for in-person instructions three days a week as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

La Porte County remains in the orange under a color coded system developed by the Indiana State Department of Health to determine how many days school buildings statewide are open for learning on a weekly basis. 

Even though the county remains in the orange category, the positivity rate the past seven days in La Porte County is higher than it’s been recently.  According to ISDH, 9% of the people tested the past week in La Porte County have turned up positive for the virus.  28 new cases and one new death was reported Wednesday from La Porte County.  The 7 day moving average of new positive case is slightly lower at 33 cases a day.

According to ISDH, the positivity rates in many other counties are going up.  The positivity rate in Porter County now stands at 9% while Lake County’s positivity rate is 9.5%.  Starke County has a positivity rate of 10.2%.  The positivity rate in St. Joseph County was 6.8%