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Bourbon County reports first confirmed coronavirus case

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Bourbon County Health Department officials confirmed the county’s first confirmed case of COVID-19.

Andrea Brown, the county’s public health director, said the patient is one of the three new cases that Gov. Andy Beshear announced at a press conference on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon the state’s total remains at 14.

Brown said the county learned of the positive test last night, but couldn’t yet say where the test was performed. The patient is in hospital isolation, she said. The department announced the case in a Facebook post on Friday night.

The confirmation makes Bourbon County the fifth Kentucky county to announce a positive case. Other cases include six in Harrison County, three in Lexington, three in Louisville and one in Montgomery County.

Brown said more information would be available during Beshear’s next press conference scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday.

“The community has already taken significant measures to help slow the spread of the virus by closing the schools and postponing or canceling large public events,” the department’s Facebook post said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

This story was originally published March 14, 2020 at 12:16 PM.

Rick Childress
Lexington Herald-Leader
Rick Childress covers Eastern Kentucky for the Herald-Leader. The Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate first joined the paper in 2016 as an agate desk clerk in the sports section and in 2020 covered higher education during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He spent much of 2021 covering news and sports for the Klamath Falls Herald and News in rural southern Oregon before returning to Kentucky in 2022.
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