On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear reported 2,124 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Kentucky over the previous 24 hours, the second highest number of cases ever reported on a Monday.
The new cases increase the state’s COVID-19 victim count to 179,041.
A record 71,822 (2,394 per day) COVID-19 cases were diagnosed and 423 Kentuckians died from the virus during November, just over 14 deaths per day.
The counties reporting the most new cases on Monday were Jefferson (354), Fayette (219), Kenton (97), Daviess (90), Warren (82), and Boone (73).
Officials reported 12 coronavirus-related deaths, raising the commonwealth’s death toll to 1,908 (1.1 percent fatality rate). Kentucky has now had 196 COVID-19-related deaths over the last 12 days (16.3 per day).
Those reported lost to the virus on Monday was a 68-year-old Grayson County man, along with two women, ages 74 and 86, from Caldwell County; a 50-year-old woman from Daviess County; a 90-year-old man from Fayette County; a 56-year-old woman from Jefferson County; a 77-year-old man from Marshall County; a 75-year-old woman and two men, ages 67 and 75, from McCracken County; an 87-year-old woman from McLean County; and an 84-year-old man from Webster County.
The rolling seven-day positivity rate jumped to 9.42 percent from Sunday’s 9.24 percent.
Hospitalizations rose by 32 patients to 1,741, the most victims ever hospitalized in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic. Intensive care patients went up by 13 to 421 and people on ventilators also rose from Sunday’s 218 to 229 on Monday.
Since the onset of the pandemic, 10,054 (5.6 percent) people have been hospitalized, and 2,462 (1.4 percent) patients have been treated in ICUs.
At least 28,281 (15.8 percent) Kentuckians have recovered from the virus and 2.79 million COVID-19 tests have been administered in the state.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
