HENDERSON, Ky. Henderson County recorded 10 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as reported by the Green River District Health Department.
Overall, the GRDHD reported 30 new cases in its seven-county district on Wednesday with 16 of those in Daviess County. Ohio County reported two new cases, while Union County and Webster County had one each.
The incidence rate, which measures the average daily cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days, dropped slightly to 19.0 for Henderson County as of Tuesday afternoon and put the county in the orange or accelerated level. Webster County is also in the orange level at 14.4, while Union County remained in the yellow or community spread level at 3.0.
Director of Kentucky Emergency Management Mike Dossett said the vaccination clinics are about health equity. Health equity means that everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible, he said. That means removing obstacles, and we are taking yet another step in this process by opening the clinic in Henderson and a second one in Laurel County, Kentucky. We re trying to give 250 doses a day, in addition to the mobile outreach vans, Dossett said, noting that between the two federal sites, the goal is to get 7,000 people vaccinated a week.
Both the mobile units and the clinic sites will administer both rounds of vaccines at the proper intervals.
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Henderson County has reported 59 new cases this week.
An earlier death of a Henderson County resident was attributed to COVID after a state audit of death certificates, raising the total to 76 in the county. A previously reported death of an Ohio County resident was determined not to be COVID-related.
Despite the spike in cases, Henderson County dropped from the red or critical level to the orange or accelerated level on the state s incidence rate map on Thursday. The incidence rate, which measures the average daily cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days, dropped to 17.7 as of Thursday afternoon in the county. Webster County and Union County remained in the yellow or community spread level with incidence rates of 9.9 and 6.0, respectively.