A 93-year-old man has died of COVID-19 related complications, the Christian County Health Department confirmed Thursday.
The man had underlying health conditions, health department spokeswoman Amanda Sweeney said in a release.
The death is the county’s seventh attributed to coronavirus and its third in the last two weeks.
The county confirmed the death of a 65-year-old man on July 30 and an 80-year-old man on July 24. The latter was a resident of Covington’s Convalescent.
Previously, the death of a 69-year-old man was confirmed on June 25. The county’s first three deaths — an 86-year-old man, an 86-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man — were all confirmed on April 8. Two were residents of Western State Hospital.
The department also confirmed six new cases on Thursday, bringing the local total since the pandemic began to 613. Over the past week, the county has averaged 11 new cases per day.
See more data on Christian County coronavirus cases here.
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