Over 2,400 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Kentucky between Monday and Friday of last week.
Gov. Andy Beshear will hold a briefing Monday afternoon on the Delta variant of coronavirus that appears to be behind a surge in cases in the commonwealth.
In addition to the 2,408 new cases of the virus confirmed between Monday and Friday of last week, 21 new deaths were announced, raising the state’s death toll to 7,284. In total, 469,710 cases of the virus have been confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of the 541 new cases reported on Friday, 133 (24.56 percent) were children under the age of 18.
The rolling seven-day positivity rate, nearly one percent about three weeks ago, was 4.49 percent on Friday. Furthermore, five weeks ago there were zero Kentucky counties in the “red,” indicating a “critical spread” of the virus, but on Friday there were five (Muhlenberg, Hopkins, Webster, Lewis, and Clay).
As of Friday, 294 people were hospitalized with 64 patients being treated in intensive care. Twenty-two people were on ventilators.
After experiencing an uptick in cases over the last two-plus weeks, Grayson County’s rate of occurrence fell to 3.8 on Friday, signaling 3.8 new cases per day per 100,000 over the previous seven days, according to the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH).
Only one new case of the virus was reported in Grayson County on Friday, according to the KDPH, giving the county 2,281 cases since March 2020. Grayson County’s death toll stands at 58.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
