FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky continued to record lower virus case numbers on Tuesday as the state readies to receive another large dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
There were 1,080 new cases of the virus reported on Tuesday, and 19 new deaths, Gov. Andy Beshear said. The positivity rate, a measure of the percentage of positive tests, was 4.7%, the governor said.
“These numbers are so much lower than we are used to,” Beshear said at a briefing in Frankfort on Tuesday.
Beshear said the state would be receiving 98,000 new COVID-19 vaccine doses this week.
Since the pandemic began in Kentucky nearly a year ago, there have been 4,671 virus-related deaths.
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