On Friday, Kentucky health officials announced 16,130 new COVID-19 cases, again setting a record for the most cases reported in a single day.
Kentucky this month has recorded record-high case numbers on January 5 (9,807), January 6 (9,836), January 7 (11,096), January 12 (11,232), January 14 (13,492), and January 15 (14,896).
Of Friday’s cases, 4,108 (25.5 percent) were children 18 and younger.
The state has now had 82,339 COVID cases diagnosed since Saturday, and 1,056,284 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Twenty-eight deaths were announced, raise the commonwealth’s death toll to 12,687 (1.2 percent fatality rate).
The positivity rate went up from Thursday’s 31.37 to 32.1, the highest the metric has ever been.
Since December 27, the number of people hospitalized has risen from 1,330 to 2,347 (up 76.5 percent), while patients in ICUs increased from 342 to 439 (up 28.4 percent). The number of people on ventilators rose from 203 to 268 (up 32 percent).
All 120 Kentucky counties are experiencing a “critical spread” of the virus, according to the Kentucky Department for Public Health, as the statewide incident rate is an outrageously high 237 per 100,000 residents, up from Thursday’s 229.4.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
