The COVID-19 positivity rate jumped a percentage point since last week, as the state reported 6,376 new cases.
Up from 8.63 percent, the positivity rate is now at 9.85 percent—just an example of one of many illnesses tracing its way through Kentucky and the country. There were also 45 newly reported deaths, putting the death toll in the Commonwealth at 17,625 since the pandemic began.
There are currently 370 individuals with coronavirus in the hospital, 42 in the ICU and 20 on a ventilator.