Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear urged people to sign-up for a COVID-19 vaccination Thursday while reporting 645 new cases.
Approximately 1.8 million individuals have received at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Kentucky, with Governor Beshear saying he would like to see that process pick up even more speed in the coming weeks.
Appointments are available across the Commonwealth, open to all Kentuckians 16-years of age and up, so the governor says there’s no reason to not find one as soon as possible to help finally put this pandemic behind us.
The Christian County Health Department has appointments open and will be having Johnson and Johnson vaccine clinics on April 14 at the Senior Citizens Center and Virginia Street Baptist Church, April 21 at the Boys and Girls Club and April 28 at the Salvation Army. The governor also reported that Christian County has a second confirmed case of the B 1.1.7 coronavirus variant.
There were 16 new deaths reported Thursday, putting the death toll in the Commonwealth at 6,214—the positivity rate decreased once again to 2.81 percent.
In an unemployment update, General Counsel Amy Cubbage says they are having to shut down the Unemployment Insurance systems for the next four days, to hopefully address the massive amounts of fraud taking place. A recent tactic of scammers is being able to correctly figure out the four-digit PIN numbers provided to beneficiaries—claimants will soon receive new PIN numbers and they will be required to re-register their accounts.