Beshear said the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the virus in the last seven days was 4.92 percent, also the highest since those days, when tests were largely limited to people with symptoms.
“It seems like we’ve got half that take it seriously and half that don’t. Half that believe it’s a hoax or is being inflated." — Lake Cumberland District Health Director Shawn Crabtree
Beshear largely rebuffed Republican legislators' suggestions that his limits on activity be reduced in areas that have low infection rates, saying the virus can spread too quickly for that.
For now, Kentucky limits bars and restaurants to 50% capacity and allows gatherings of up to 50 people. But the governor said Sunday that he would have to take action in response to a surge of daily new cases, particularly the new record set Sunday.
An analysis by Hoptown Chronicle shows that by mid-to-late May, visits to many public places appeared to return to pre-coronavirus levels. It was followed by a spike in local cases.
Sunday's 979 new cases pushed the state's seven-day rolling average to 547 cases, up from 447 yesterday; it has more than doubled in the last two weeks. Beshear said 30 of Sunday's new cases were in children under age 5.
