Kentucky finishes seventh straight week of declining COVID cases

Kentucky has completed a seventh consecutive week of declining numbers of new COVID-19 cases as Governor Andy Beshear announced 526 more and 13 new deaths Sunday.

The positivity rate was up slightly to 4.12 percent, 558 Kentuckians are in the hospital with the virus, 156 are in the ICU and 82 are on a ventilator.

Christian, Todd, Trigg and Hopkins counties are all yellow on the state incidence rate map and Lyon County remains the only red county in the region due to outbreaks at the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex and state penitentiary.

Tennessee reported 1,278 new cases and four more deaths. Hospitalizations fell again to 747 and the Volunteer State’s positivity rate is 6.13 percent.