Over 800 new COVID cases in KY, 22 deaths. Positivity rate again over four percent.

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On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said 805 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases were confirmed in Kentucky over the previous 24 hours.

The new cases increase the state’s COVID-19 victim count to 54,772.

Officials said 122 of the new cases are children 18 and younger, with 19 of those victims children five-years-old and younger. The youngest new patient, according to officials, is a three-month-old baby from Fayette County.

Beshear reported 22 new deaths Thursday, raising the commonwealth’s death toll to 1,035 (1.9 percent fatality rate). Over the last two days, 38 Kentuckians have died due to the virus.

The deaths reported Thursday include an 84-year-old man from Barren County; an 86-year-old man from Bullitt County; an 81-year-old man from Campbell County; a 76-year-old woman from Daviess County; a 53-year-old woman from Fayette County; a 78-year-old woman from Grayson County; a 101-year-old woman from Green County; a 55-year-old man from Harlan County; five women, ages 70, 73, 82, 86 and 102, and an 80-year-old man from Jefferson County; a 100-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man from Marion County; a 60-year-old man from Monroe County; a 77-year-old man from Nelson County; and two women, ages 83 and 90, and two men, ages 82 and 84, from Warren County.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,835 (8.8 percent) Kentuckians have been hospitalized, with 565 patients currently in a hospital. To date, 1,440 (2.6 percent) people have been treated in an ICU, with 133 patients currently in intensive care.

The rolling seven-day positivity rate checked in at 4.14 percent, rising above four percent for the first time since Monday; on Wednesday it was 3.84 percent and Tuesday, 3.91 percent.

At least 10,791 (19.7 percent) people have recovered from the virus, and 943,460 COVID-19 tests have been administered in the state.

By Ken Howlett, News Director

Contact Ken at ken@k105.com