SITUATIONS REMAIN HEALTHY AND SAFE. LIVE IN THE STUDIO, FDOR HATCHETT, WXII 12 NEWS. TALITHA: POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING, AFTER A 21-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DIED IN GREENSBORO. GREENSBORO POLICE SAY STJU BEFORE 11-30 LAST NIGHT, THEY WERE CALLED TO EAST WHITTINGTON STREET.FOR AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. THEY FOUND KEYONA WALKER INJURED, AND INVESTIGATORS SAY SHE DIED FROM HER INJURIES. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING HER DEATH AS A HOMICIDE. THEY HAVEN’T MADE ANY ARRESTS. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CASE YOU'R’ ASKED CONTACT POLICE IMMEDIATELY. MEANTIME, WINSTON-SALEM POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO'’ RESPONSIBLE FOR A SHOOTING OVER THE WEEKD.EN POLICE SAY TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES, WHILE SITTING IN A CAR ON ROSA STREET LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. THEY WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WE’RE TOLD THEIR INJURIES ARE NON-LIFE THREATENI.NG POLICE SAY THE SUSPECTS WEREN I A WHITE SEDAN. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, CALL POLICE. KIMBERLY: THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO IS SHOOTINGT A HOMES IN REIDSVIE.LL DEPUTIES SAY SOMEONE SHOT AT A HOME ON WRIGHT TRAIL FROM A CAR FRIDAY NIGHT AT AROUND 11. THEN, AT ABOUT 4 IN THE MORNING ON SUNDAY, SEVERAL SHO WERETS FIRED AT A HOME RIGHT NEXT DOOR. DEPUTIES SAY PEOPLE WERE IIDENS THE HOMES DURING BOTH OFHE T SHOOTINGS BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED. A WOMAN OMFR EDEN IS FACING MULTIPLE CHARGES AND IS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A CHILD. THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY’S SHERIFF OFFICE SAYS DEPUTIES ARRESTED NATALIE YOUNG FISHER ON FRIDAY. SHE’S BEING HELD IN THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY DETENTION FACULTY, ON A 50,000 DOLLAR BOND. TALITHA: A MAN FROM THOMASVILLE IS IN JAIL TONIGHT, ACCUSED OF BREAKING INTO SOMEONE’S HOME AND STEALING A TRUCK. THE DAVIDSON COUNTY’S SHERIFF OFFICE SAYS CHRISTOPHER DUNNING FORCED HIS WAY INTO A HOME ON KINDLEROY AD YESTERDAY. THEY SAY HE THEN GOT IN THE HOMEOWNER’S TRUCK, DRAGGING ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS BY THE TRUCK, BEFORE CRASHING INTO THE WOODS. DUNNING IS BEING HELD AT DAVIDSON COUNTY JAIL. COVID-19 CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE STE.AT WXII’S JUSTIN SHRAIR SPOKE WITH AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT FROM WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH TODAY, TO SHARE THE CONCERNS AND HOW HIGH CASES ARE HERE AT HOME. JUSTIN: DR. CHRIS SOUL IS ASKING FOLKS THAT HAVE QUESTIONS AND WHO ARE STILL HESITANT TO TALK WITH THEIR DOCTOR. AS THE PERCENT POSITIVE RISES TO NEARLY 9% IN OUR STATE, LOCALLY IN FORSYTH COUNT DY,R. CHRIS OHL WITH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH SAYS CASES ARE ALSO RISINGN I UNVACCINATED PEOPLE. >> CASES ARE UP. FORSYTH COUNTY THEY ARE PROBABLY UP 200%, 250% FROM WHERE THEY WERE A FEW WEEKS AGO, BUT THAT IS GOING FROM A VERY SMALL NUMBER TO KIND OF A MODESTLY HIGH NUMBER. JUSTIN: THROUGHOUT THE STATE HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE ALSO ON THE RISE. MORE THAN 940 PEOPLE ARE BATTLING COVID-19 IN NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS. DR. OHL SAYS THE MAJORITY OF HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE ALMOST ALL IN PEOPLE WHO ARE SOAL UNVACCINATED. >> ALMOST ALL. WELL OVER 99%. EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMEBODY IS IMMUNOCOMPROMISED AND THEY ARE HOSPITALIZED WITH IT BECAUSE THEY DON’T RESPOND TOHE T VACCINE AS WELL AND THEY MAYE B GETTING A THIRD DOSE OF THE VACCINE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. JUSTIN: MORE THAN 13,500 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN NORTH CAROLINA DUE TO COVID-19. AND WITH THE MORE HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE DELTA VARIANT NOW THE MOST DOMINATSTE RAINN ITHE UNTIED STATES, OHL SAYS IT IS GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO AREOT N WEARING MASKS AND WHO ARE UNVACCINATED. HE ASKING PEOPLE WHORE A HESITANT ABOUT GETTING A VACCINE, TO TALK WITH THEIR DOCTOR. >> THE BIG THING IS FOR PEOPLE TO GET VACCINATED. AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE QUESTIONS GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND TALK TO YOUR PHYSICIAN. TALK TO YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER THAT YOU TRUST THAT YOU’VE BEEN SEEING. TALK WITH YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH PEOP.LE JUSTIN: OHL SAYS THE BEST WAY TO BEAT THIS VIRUS IS TO GET VACCINATED. JUSTIN SHRAIR, WXII 12 NEWS. TALITHA: AS FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE VACCINATED IN NORTH CAROLINA, DHHS REPORTS 60% OF ADULTS HAVE RECEIVED THEIR FIRST DOSE OF THE VACCINE. 57% OF ADULTS ARE FULLY VACCINATED. KIMBERLY: A HANDFUL OF STATES ARE DRIVING THE NATIONWIDE INCREASE IN COVID CASES, MOSTLY FROM THE DELTA VARIA.NT AND WHILE MORE PEOPLE ARE GETTING VACCINATED THERE’S PRESSURE TO RETURN TO THE MASK MANDATE. ALICE BARR HAS THE LATEST FROM WASHINGTON. REPORT:ER THE HIGHLY-CONTAGIOUS DELTA VARIANT IS DRIVING COVID SPIKES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WITH ROUGHLY 100 MILLION ELIGIBLE BUT STILL UNVACCINATED AMERICANS GIVING THE VIRUS ROOM TO SPREAD. >> WITH THAT MANY UNVACCINATED PEOPLE, GOING INTO THE FALL, WITH THE DELTA VARIANTS A EFFICIENT AS IT IS IN TRANSMITTING, WE CAN HAVE A REALLY SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH A CONSIDERABLE SURGE OF INFECT.IONS REPORTER: IN STATES WITH THE BIGGEST SURGES, VACCINATION RATES ARE TICKING UP, BUT NOT QUICY KLENOUGH. TODAY, AS BUSINESSES AND EMPLOYERS DEBATE WHETHER TO MANDATE VACCINES, A COALITION OF 56 LEADING MEDICAL GROUPSAS YS ALL HEALTHCARE WORKERS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO GET THE SHOTS, TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, AND THEIR PATIENTS. >> WE ASSUME THAT OUR HEALTHCARE WORKERS WHO ARE GOING TOAK TE CARE OF US THEY’RE ALSO NOT GOING TO HARM US WITH AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE THAT THEY MAY CARRY. REPORT:ER MORE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE NOW MANDATING MASKS AGAIN, TODAY ST. LOUIS JOINING, LOS ANGELES AND NEW ORLEANS REQUIRING FACE COVERINGS INDOS.OR AND FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE WEIGHING NEW MASK GUIDANCE FOR VACCINATED AMERICA.NS >> THIS IS UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION. REPORTER: CITING CONCERNS OVER THE DELTA VARIANT, THE BIDEN ADNIMISTRATION IS EXTENDING FOREIGN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, IMPOSED AT THE START OETHF PANDEMIC. IN WASHINGTON, ALICE BARR, N