FRANKFORT, Ky (WKYT) – Governor Andy Beshear has provided an update on COVID-19 cases.
Governor Beshear reported 2,946 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the state total to 227,818 cases. The governor says the state is seeing a positivity rate of 8.53%. Of the new cases on Tuesday, 340 are in children 18 years of age or younger.
The governor says today’s new cases are lower than last Tuesday’s and Tuesday’s total.
On Tuesday, 15 COVID-19-related deaths were reported. The total state deaths are now 2,239.
The deaths reported Tuesday include a 68-year-old man from Boyd County; a 62-year-old woman from Caldwell County; a 77- and 80-year-old man from Daviess County; an 88-year-old woman from Graves County; a 77-year-old man from Hardin County; five Jefferson County men, ages 61, 64, 78, 83, and 92; a 90-year-old man from McCracken County; and three women from Ohio County, 87, and two, both 91.
As of Tuesday, 1,788 people are hospitalized for COVID-19-related reasons, 438 in the ICU and 246 with ventilators. At least 32,234 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus.
The governor reported two more deaths at the Thomson-Hood Veterans Center, for a total of 33.
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