The fluid situation surrounding the COVID-19 crisis has businesses providing help to those aiding those in need and rethinking how to deliver products and services to customers.
In times of need, service organizations often rise to the occasion to provide aid to the community.
Initiatives by government, private businesses and a host of organizations to slow the spread of the coronavirus is expected to create a recession as mass layoffs cause unemployment to exceed 10.5% nationally and 10% in Indiana within 45 days, according to a report from Ball State University.
With Indiana’s casinos shut down at least through the end of March because of the coronavirus outbreak, operators of the Horseshoe Hammond Casino and the Four Winds Casinos have donated their food to assorted charitable groups.
The rising number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the state has sparked additional intervention by government and numerous organizations to slow further spread of the virus.
The Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute believes the coronavirus outbreak will lead to the nation’s economy shrinking by 1.25% from January to June.
Two of Indiana’s latest confirmed COVID-19 cases are being treated at Region hospitals.
With the number of cases of COVID-19 increasing, Indiana officials and many organizations are taking steps to slow further spread of the virus.
Valparaiso University and Ivy Tech Community College have joined other colleges turning to remote teaching to reduce the chances of students and staff potentially coming into contact with the coronavirus.
Purdue University Northwest announced March 11 that it is suspending classroom instruction and all scheduled campus events between March 12 and April 4 in response to the conoravirus outbreak.
