The Christian County Health Department reported five new cases of COVID-19 from Tuesday to Wednesday.
That brings the overall total locally up to 6,989 of that, 150 cases are considered active and 6,738 people have recovered from the virus.
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The Hopkinsville City Council swore in new Hopkinsville Police Department officer Cassidy Martinez during Mayâs first city council meeting Tuesday night.
Before Mayor Wendell Lynch recited the oath to Martinez, HPD Chief Clayton Sumner gave the council a background on the 21-year-old officer.
Martinez, originally from New York, graduated from Christian County High School in 2017 and was hired as a Public Safety Officer for the department in April 2018.
After graduating from the Department of Criminal Justice Training Police Academy in Richmond, Kentucky and turning 21, she was hired as an officer, Sumner said.
Martinez will be working with senior police training officers within the department for the next six months and following her graduation from the internal program will be sent out on solo patrols, Sumner added.
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May 3, 2021 4:13 PM
Kentucky gained 313 new cases of COVID-19, as reported Monday by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who also reported that 1.84 million people have now been vaccinated against the virus.
The data is showing pretty clearly that new cases have plateaued in the state, which the governor says is better than an escalation but is not the decline they want to see he says the positivity rate will be watched closely in the coming days.
The positivity rate is currently sitting at 3.45 percent, an increase compared to recent reports. In a new data report, it shows that Christian County is in the bottom five counties on percentage of individuals vaccinated showing about 17 percent of the county’s population have gotten the shot. Governor Beshear says that shows there’s still work to be done, complementing the Christian County Health Department on their efforts to reach people.
Joanna Mack, Director of Grace and Mercy was diagnosed with diabetes in 2020. “ I was always getting large boils around my chin and face. A good friend of mine, who is a doctor, asked me if I had ever had my sugar tested.” After obtaining a self-testing kit, Joanna, who thought she had scored well, excitedly told her friend that her score was a 396. According to the MayoClinic.org, a healthy blood sugar level should be less than 140. Joanna’s doctor emphatically instructed her to get her blood work tested. “I went to St. Luke Clinic (nervous as heck) and they took my blood. My A1C came back as 13.7. Again, I thought it was good, but when I was told it should be 6 or below, I quickly shut my mouth.”