Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear reported 744 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, along with four new deaths.
According to a news release, the positivity rate also dropped slightly once again down to 2.79 percent the governor says it is heartening to see that decline and once again urged all Kentuckians ages 16 and up to get their COVID-19 vaccination to keep that trend going.
Along with the four new deaths, five deaths were discovered in the ongoing audit of the state reporting system, bringing the overall death toll up to 6,223.
There are currently 382 Kentuckians in the hospital due to COVID-19, with 106 in the ICU, and 60 on a ventilator.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Friday signed a bill into state law limiting the use of “no-knock” police raids to cases involving violent crime.
The new law is a response to the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed by police during a misdirected drug raid in March 2020. Taylor’s death set off nationwide demonstrations.
“This is meaningful change. It will save lives and it moves us in the right direction,” Beshear, a Democrat, said in remarks at the bill signing attended by Taylor’s mother, a tearful Tamika Palmer, at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage in Louisville.
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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Friday that Colonel Phillip Burnett Jr. was sworn in as the next commissioner of Kentucky State Police.
Commissioner Burnett has been serving at the interim commissioner since November, during which he worked to strengthen the agency’s essential workforce, improve public safety and maintain critical services while also working to expand minority recruitment. Commissioner Burnett is a 25-year veteran of KSP and has served in numerous assignments including investigative operations, collision reconstructionist, field training officer, firearms instructor, post commander, operations east troop major, and administration division lieutenant colonel.
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