The Christian County Health Department reported four new COVID-19 related deaths Thursday, along with 142 new cases locally.
According to a news release, one of the victims is a 71-year-old Caucasian male who was fully vaccinated—the other three were not vaccinated and are an 84-year-old African American male, an 85-year old Caucasian female and a 71-year-old Caucasian male. Christian County has now had 129 COVID-19 related deaths.
There were a 142 new cases reported in the last week, which is a sizable decrease from the 242 reported during the prior week—of the new cases 13 were breakthrough cases.
To date, the health department has administered 29,705 COVID-19 vaccines.