New Shelby County health directive to take effect Saturday - WREG NewsChannel 3

— The Shelby County Health Department will release a new health directive on Wednesday, days before the current one is set to expire on January 22.

Bruce Randolph with the department, Health Directive 17 will take effect on Saturday, January 23, and places a lot of emphasis on personal responsibility.

Despite restrictions still being in place, Randolph said the county is seeing progress as numbers continue to stabilize and in some cases fall.

To date, the Shelby County Health Department has distributed more than 13,000 doses.

On Tuesday, the Shelby County Health Department reported 78,382 total cases and 362 new cases Tuesday morning.

The deaths account for 1.5% of all cases in Shelby County.

Despite the numbers the health department says we are seeing some progress but the health director says the threat is far from over. .

If we send a specimen from Shelby County to the Centers for Disease Control it could take up to two weeks for us to know if that specimen is a UK variant,” Haushalter said.

WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday that the best way to organize the chamber with its coming 50-50 party split would be to adopt a deal like the one the Senate used in 2001, "without extraneous changes from either side," a Schumer spokesman said

In a meeting, Schumer and McConnell also made progress on the issues of "quickly confirming President-elect Biden’s nominees and conducting a fair impeachment trial," the spokesman said