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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky recorded its lowest Wednesday total of COVID-19 cases in a month, Gov. Andy Beshear said. Kentucky reported 2,424 new cases, Beshear said during a pandemic.
By Erin Cox
Editor
Jan 28, 2021
During Wednesday s COVID-19 briefing, Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH), spoke to Kentuckians about the implications of the United Kingdom (UK) COVID-19 variant, after two cases of the strain were confirmed in Kenton County Tuesday.
âThe vast majority of COVID-19 mutations have no clinical meaning, they donât functionally have an impact on us if weâre infected. But some of the mutations do cause the virus to be more effective,â said Dr. Stack. âThe COVID-19 B117 variant, the one we believe was first found in the United Kingdom, that variant is more contagious. If you get exposed to it, youâre more likely to be infected, so that means it can infect more people more easily.
COVID-19 update: 23 new cases in Henderson County, 177 in Green River District
HENDERSON, Ky. There were 23 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Henderson County on Saturday, according to the Green River District Health Department s report.
The GRDHD reported 177 new confirmed cases, 100 from Daviess County, which also saw three additional COVID-related deaths.
There were 14 new cases in Hancock County, 11 in McLean, 13 in Ohio, eight in Union and eight in Webster County.
The incidence rate, which measures the average daily cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days, dropped from 74.6 to 67 in Henderson County as of Friday afternoon, but still at the red or critical level. The entire seven-county Green River District remained at the critical level. Hancock County has the highest incidence rate at 83.5.
Gov. Beshear updates Kentuckians on new hospital funding, COVID-19 cases, vaccines
January 19, 2021
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 19, 2021) – On Tuesday, Gov. Andy Beshear updated Kentuckians on increased funding for Kentucky hospitals, COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 vaccines as well as bills he is vetoing.
“I come to you today as our country passes a grim milestone of losing 400,000 Americans to the coronavirus. That is a staggering loss. It’s so large it’s hard to actually see it in your mind, to process how big it is,” said Gov. Beshear. “You could fill up both UK and UofL stadiums three-and-a-quarter times and that would represent the number of lives, the number of people that we have lost in America.”