Julia Hunter

Twenty-four of the 25 people who've died locally from COVID-19 have had underlying health conditions. Hoptown Chronicle explores what those conditions have been and why it's important.

On the health department's recommendation, the district has asked the players to quarantine after exposure to a Calloway County High School football player who has since tested positive.

The report pushed the local total since the pandemic began to 1,185.

In spite of state guidance recommending remote learning only and the suspension of all school-related athletic and extracurricular activities, Christian County Public Schools continued in-person instruction Friday and had made no announcement to cancel a football game set for Saturday against a school from another county with a "critical" level of community transmission.

Thursday's total was the second-highest number of cases announced in a single day.

The death of a 49-year-old woman marks the county's youngest virus-related victim to-date.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases grew to 16 — double what it was two weeks ago and just shy of the highest average to-date.

The Kentucky Department of Public Health has classified Christian County's coronavirus incidence rate over the past seven days as "accelerated."

Of the 235 cases classified as active by the health department, 31 are reported by the state to be at long-term care facilities and eight are associated with local schools.

As the state passed a solemn milestone of more than 1,000 deaths, Christian County approached the same number of cases on Wednesday.

Tuesday's daily total was among the highest reported locally since the pandemic began.

It's the fifth-highest daily total reported by the department since the pandemic began in mid-March.