The Grayson County Health Department (GCHD) on Friday said 89 new COVID-19 cases were diagnosed over the last 24 hours.
Since Thursday, January 13, the GCHD has announced 683 new cases of the virus, raising the total number of cases diagnosed since March 2020 to 6,512. Since January 3, 1,104 COVID cases have been reported in the county; just over 61 per day.
Grayson County’s incident rate on Friday checked in at 266, up from the 87.6 incident rate recorded on January 13, and the twenty-seventh highest rate in the state. An incident rate over 25.0 indicates a “critical spread” of the virus, according to the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
There are 615 active cases in Grayson County, up 254 active cases since Saturday.
Fourteen people are hospitalized, the second highest number of hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic.
No new deaths were reported, leaving the county’s death toll at 112. Four deaths are awaiting confirmation from state health officials.
All six bordering counties have incident rates well into the “red,” with Hardin County posting the highest rate of occurrence at 296.3 (fourteenth highest of Kentucky’s 120 counties), followed by Ohio (292.3, sixteenth highest in the state), Breckinridge (237.2), Hart (140.3), Butler (132), and Edmonson (123.5) counties.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
