Ten days after the state's first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on March 6, the governor ordered the initial round of business closures. By the end of the year, 57 virus-related deaths had been confirmed in Christian County.
Local "non-hospital" health care agencies — as well as emergency responders that provide medical care — that haven't signed up to receive the vaccine can do so on the health department's website.
For the week of Dec. 18 through 24, the hospital reached record highs for the total number of inpatient beds occupied by coronavirus patients and its overall proportion of COVID-19 patients.
The Pennyroyal Arts Council helped the health department by emailing parents of the other dancers to make them aware someone in the ballet had tested positive for the virus.
