Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear gave an update on COVID-19 Friday, announcing that the positivity rate has dropped below seven percent.
It is now at 6.95 percent, the lowest it has been since November, and Governor Beshear says, “This says you’re doing the right things and we’re headed in the right direction. But even if you’ve been vaccinated, we have to continue to wear masks and social distance until we can defeat this thing once and for all.”
He says it also seems that the state will have fewer reported new cases than compared to last week once again, reporting 1,440 new Friday. That shapes up to be roughly five weeks of declining case numbers.
Forty-two more Kentuckians have died, raising the death toll to 4,253—there are currently 1,063 Kentuckians hospitalized due to the virus, 277 in the ICU and 154 on a ventilator.
The Tennessee Department of Health reported 2,246 new cases there, along with 81 new deaths, bringing the death toll in the Volunteer State up to 10,893.