COVID-19

Citing reports of fewer masks being worn in supermarkets, putting critical front-line workers at risk, the governor asked retailers to not serve people who don't wear masks in their businesses.

The Christian County Health Department has provided Hoptown Chronicle with some clarification in response to some common misunderstandings about COVID-19.

The governor cautioned that the number of cases is on an upward trajectory in the state, and colder weather will only increase the risk. 

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.

Large groups of young people, most of whom did not wear masks, gathered at several parties in neighborhoods near the UK campus.

The governor said 132 of the say's new cases were in Kentuckians 18 and younger, with 18 of them 5 and younger and the youngest 2 months old.

As the county's coronavirus incidence rate reached the "critical" level on a state grid, local health officials asked schools and other groups to curtail activities.

The governor reported 12 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the state's death toll from the disease to 1,149. 

Several programs have been suspended following guidance from Health Director Kayla Bebout to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

Early, in-person voting will begin Oct. 13 at the courthouse and the sheriff's department.

The state's color-coded system calls for schools in red zones to move to all-virtual instruction and suspend sports and other extracurricular activities until they can get to the yellow zone, meaning they have 1 to 10 cases per 100,000 people daily.

Christian County Public Schools announced the district would not comply with the county health director's request to temporarily halt athletics and extracurricular activities.