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Governor's Tuesday update: 2nd highest day for new cases By Crystal Staley/Sebastian Kitchen Frankfort, KY - Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday updated Kentuckians on the state's continuing efforts to fight the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and said the state has reported the second-highest daily total of new cases. "I said yesterday I believe we're at the start of a new escalation. We're certainly seeing that in today's numbers. That means we've got to work harder. This is a war and we've won many battles, but we can't walk away from the battlefield," the Governor said. "I really need your help. Right now, moving into the fall, has the potential to be the most dangerous time we have seen in Kentucky. But it doesn't have to be, because we know there is a vaccine in our future, we just have to get to the point where we can prove that it's effective and deploy it to enough people. Are we willing to do what it takes to protect one another until that point in time? I think the answer is yes, but we've got to prove it." As of 4 p.m. Sept. 29, Gov. Beshear said there were at least 67,856 coronavirus cases in Kentucky, 1,018 of which were newly reported Tuesday. One hundred and fifty-seven of the newly reported cases were from children ages 18 and younger, of which 27 were children ages 5 and under. The youngest was only 2 months old. "Today we are reporting our second-highest total of new COVID-19 cases that we have had since March 6," the Governor said. "We need you to wear a facial covering. This ought to be a wake-up call. We can't let this thing get out of control again because we're tired. We know the steps that it takes." Unfortunately, Gov. Beshear reported eight new deaths Tuesday, raising the total to 1,170 Kentuckians lost to the virus. The deaths reported Tuesday include a 93-year-old woman from Bell County; an 86-year-old man from Bullitt County; a 77-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman from Floyd County; a 71-year-old woman from Henderson County; a 68-year-old man from Hickman County; and two women, ages 86 and 87, from Kenton County. "When we have 1,018 cases it means we're going to lose more people moving forward. It's far too many," said Gov. Beshear. As of Tuesday, there have been at least 1,446,385 coronavirus tests performed in Kentucky. The positivity rate was 4.24%, and at least 11,792 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus. Dr. Stack Update Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, offered insights Tuesday into the state of the pandemic and efforts to reopen schools. Dr. Stack highlighted the state's new online portal for school COVID-19 reporting. "The K-12 cases dashboard is a tool for the public," Dr. Stack said. "For those of you who have children in K-12 schools, you should be able to go to this dashboard, find your school by name and see the data that they've reported." Dr. Stack also announced a change to the state's recommendations for schools about what modes of instruction they should employ depending on the positivity rate of the county. Previously, if a school was in the "red zone," the guidance was that they needed to get back to the "yellow zone" before reopening to in-person instruction. "The color-coding system to guide schools as to what precautions they should take in a given week is intended to identify when the disease is particularly active in your community - the entire community - so the whole community can come together to do what needs to be done to improve the situation," Dr. Stack said. "The one change we made today is that if your county goes to red, you no longer have to go all the way back down to yellow to consider resuming in-person instruction." Driver's Licenses Today, Gov. Beshear announced that he will extend a renewal option for Kentuckians with driver's licenses that are due to expire. "This renewed executive order allows people to renew their driver's license by a drop box or by mail," the Governor said. "You still have to renew it by one of those fashions through February 2021. Now it doesn't automatically extend, so make sure that either by that drop box or by mail you get this done." This story was posted on 2020-09-29 16:01:29
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