Kentucky gained 2,305 cases of COVID-19 from Wednesday to Thursday, and the positivity rate dropped below eight percent.
The positivity rate has been steadily declining for over weeks, now at 7.91 percent—Governor Andy Beshear also reported 52 new deaths, putting the death toll since the pandemic began at 9,262.
On the state incidence rate map, Christian and Todd counties remains ‘orange’, but Trigg County has once again gone ‘red’, along with Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg and Logan counties.
There are currently 1,354 people in the hospital with coronavirus, 399 in the ICU and 270 on a ventilator.