‘We’re heading in the right direction.’ Ky. COVID cases reach lowest mark in two months
For the fourth straight week, COVID-19 cases continued to drop as Kentucky rises out of omicron’s wave, Gov. Andy Beshear said in his Monday press conference.
Beshear reported 969 new Covid cases for Monday, the lowest count posted in nearly two months, according to Beshear. 3,564 cases were reported for Saturday and 1,422 more cases were reported for Sunday.
“We’re heading in the right direction. It looks like we may be able to have a really good spring and summer, and we certainly hope it holds for longer than that,” Beshear said. “But try to be patient just in the next couple of weeks to where you don’t end up with COVID and we don’t end up with things like schools that can’t be opened for a couple of days because we just weren’t patient enough for the next couple of weeks.”
Hospitalizations, the number of patients on ventilators and the positivity rate also continued their recent drop, Beshear said. The latest positivity rate is 12.74 percent, down from 13.1 percent one week ago.
“That is still really high, but given we were over 36, 37 percent, this has been a significant decline and we are absolutely headed to a much better place,” Beshear said.
Beshear said the death totals from Covid are still high. He reported 32 new deaths on Saturday, 29 deaths on Sunday and 29 deaths on Monday, which include a 37-year-old woman from Fayette County.
A 31-year-old man from Harlan County died on Sunday.
