The positivity rate is now at 11.21 percent in Kentucky, with 7,140 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last week.
According to a weekly update, there were also 37 newly reported deaths in that time, bringing the death toll in the Commonwealth up to 15,945 since the pandemic began. On the Kentucky COVID-19 community spread level map, Christian, Todd and Trigg counties remain ‘green’.
There are currently 234 people in the hospital with COVID-19, 29 in the ICU and nine on a ventilator, so hospital levels remain fairly low across the state.