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At least 4,103 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the county. That includes 2,284 by the health department and 1,819 by Jennie Stuart. Additional testing has been done through local physicians’ offices and medical clinics, but those numbers are not being reported.

Booker is a first-term state Representative from Louisville, and one of ten Democratic candidates running in his party’s primary for the U.S. Senate

Murray State University Assistant Football Coach Sherman Neal first called for the monument's removal in a June 1 open letter to county and Murray city leadership.

Among the new cases Sunday and Monday, 61 were in Louisville Metro and 48 were in Lexington. The state has had 11,476 people with the virus, 3,359 of whom have recovered and 472 of whom have died.

In the first eight days of June, the county recorded 22 new cases. That is approximately 15% of the total number of cases since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March. The only other period with more cases locally was April 1-8, when 33 cases were reported.

Adults should model wearing a face mask to help normalize the mask and familiarize the child with what a mask looks like when put on the face.

In the week between May 31 and June 6, the number of Christian County’s COVID-19 cases increased by 23.

After two weeks of general decline, the state began seeing rises in cases May 29, when 283 were reported. Including that day, seven of the last nine days have had case numbers higher than 213.

The minister stopped in-person services in late May after several congregants tested positive, but he told a Lexington Herald-Leader reporter he plans to resume them on June 21 at a “huge tent revival.”

Benton Police Chief Stephen Sanderson said law enforcement asked a group of 2nd Amendment advocates, who had planned to attend the protest out of fears local businesses would get looted, to set up a couple blocks away from the protest. Those advocates were mostly out of view from the protest on the courthouse square.

While as of Thursday Kentucky was one of only six states that met basic federal criteria to reopen its economy safely, the state's number of cases and rate of transmission are up.

The majority of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week had recently participated in a gathering or had been in a congregate setting, said County Health Director Kayla Bebout.