Health

The state had 246 newly confirmed cases from Sunday and Monday.

The county could see a spike in people testing positive for COVID-19 as more residents get out of their homes when businesses reopen, the county health director said.

About 100 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with, and three in New York have died from, pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome. It appears to be caused by the corionavirus.

A nursing home in Butler, a state prison in Muhlenberg and a church serve in Hopkins produced major outbreaks in those counties.

Christian County's number of recovered coronavirus cases more than 4 times number of active cases.

Current COVID-19 patients are able to receive plasma from recovered patients, which contains antibodies believed to assist in the fight against the virus.

The downtown testing is set for May 11 and 18 on Clay Street at the parking lot between Fifth and Sixth streets.

At this point, the state has tested about 10 percent of all residents, and testing all of them would take a couple of months to get all of the testing done.

There were 11 deaths from the coronavirus in Kentucky on Thursday, and the state reported 208 newly confirmed cases.

Insurance is not required, and there's no charge for a test.

The number of people in the county who have recovered from COVID-19 is more than triple the number who are currently sick.

The health department is offering to provide transportation for anyone who cannot provide their own to the testing site at Tie Breaker Park.