The Ashland-Boyd County Health Department announced 31 more cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
Four of the new patients are under 2 years old â a 10-month-old girl, two 18-month-old girls and a 15-month boy tested positive.
The remaining 27 cases, which are all general-population cases and not attached to Ashland FCI or Boyd County Detention Center, involve 15 males, from ages 10 to 82, and 12 females, ages 10 to 65. All of these cases involve home isolation.
There have been 2,704 total cases in Boyd County, including 1,604 recoveries and 40 COVID-positive deaths.
The Greenup County Health Department had not issued a report as of 6:15 p.m. on Friday. On its Thursday report, it listed 30 new caes, including a 59-year-old male who is hospitalized. There have been 1,994 positive cases among Greenup County residents, including 1,355 recoveries and 24 COVID-positive deaths.
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CATLETTSBURG Boyd County Jailer Bill Hensley said, yes, the detention center was allowing COVID-negative inmates in the same cell as positive-testing inmates, but only in certain situations approved by the local health department.
Accusations and complaints have been flying around on social media and from families to the jail, Hensley said, but he assured that the jail staff is doing its best to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus amid a challenging time.
Overall, he said, there have been 193 positives and 143 negatives among employees and inmates in the latest round of testing.
A few locked up over the weekend at local jails have already made other headlines, such as five people in Carter County charged in connection to a murder in Grayson.
William Smith, Roger Ratcliff, Joseph Ratcliff and Jacob Ruth are facing murder charges. Brenda Clevenger is facing a complicity to murder charge. According to Grayson Police Chief Travis Steele, there were no updates as of Tuesday afternoon regarding the death of 25-year-old John Waggoner, which occurred on Friday night on South View Court.
Several others landed in local detention centers over the weekend.
Boyd County Detention Center
⢠Michael Evans, 33, was booked Friday on a fourth-degree assault charge.