Kentucky COVID positivity rate falls below 3 percent

Kentucky’s COVID-19 rolling positivity rate is below 3-percent again and Governor Andy Beshear announced 488 new cases Saturday.

The positivity rate fell again to 2.83 percent and just over 1.9 million Kentuckians have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Trigg County is now green with an incidence rate of zero, Christian County is yellow and Todd County is just barely in the orange.

The governor also announced five new deaths, bringing the state’s death toll to 6,648.