The Christian County Health Department has appointments open and will be having Johnson and Johnson vaccine clinics on April 14 at the Senior Citizens Center and Virginia Street Baptist Church, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club and April 28 at the Salvation Army. The governor also reported that Christian County has a second confirmed case of the B 1.1.7 coronavirus variant.
There were 16 new deaths reported Thursday, putting the death toll in the Commonwealth at 6,214 the positivity rate decreased once again to 2.81 percent.
In an unemployment update, General Counsel Amy Cubbage says they are having to shut down the Unemployment Insurance systems for the next four days, to hopefully address the massive amounts of fraud taking place. A recent tactic of scammers is being able to correctly figure out the four-digit PIN numbers provided to beneficiaries claimants will soon receive new PIN numbers and they will be required to re-register their accounts.
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The active case count in Christian County is on the rise again.
As of Thursday afternoon, the Christian County Health Department reported 22 new COVID-19 cases, all of which are active. There are 146 active cases, 98 are between 22 and 59, 31 are 21 or younger, and 17 are between 60 and 84. Currently, there are no active cases among those 85 or older.
Christian County has reported 6,705 total COVID-19 cases, with 6,468 recoveries and 91 deaths since the pandemic began.
Spokeswoman Amanda Brunt says the deceased was a 68-year old white male with underlying health conditions.
The health department also announced an increase of 17 coronavirus cases Wednesday, pushing the county’s total to 6,683 cases since the pandemic began over a year ago. Of those, 124 are currently active and 6,468 have recovered from the virus.
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