Gov. announces seventh straight week of declining COVID cases

Kentucky has made it seven consecutive weeks with declining cases of COVID-19.

On Sunday, Governor Andy Beshear reported 675 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Kentucky has already set a record for vaccinations in a seven-day period and Beshear hopes to see that record broken again soon.

The governor also announced 12 more deaths, bringing Kentucky’s pandemic death toll to 4,625.

The Tennessee Department of Health noted 1,117 new cases and 18 more deaths Sunday. Tennessee has 878 residents in the hospital with the virus and the positivity rate is 6.77 percent.