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Kentucky had three COVID-19 related deaths Sunday.

On Sunday, Christian County's seven-day average grew to 17, an all-time high since the pandemic began in mid-March.

Never before has Christian County reported as many new coronavirus cases in a seven-day period as over the last week.

The first closure will be Ninth Street beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17.

The county has reported more new coronavirus cases within a seven-day period only once before, just a week and a half ago.

One historical tidbit woven into Charles Mayfield Meacham's History of Christian County was an ordinance passed in 1906 prohibiting cows from running at large.

The bridge is part of a 1.7-mile extension of the Hopkinsville Greenway from the Pardue Lane Trailhead to the area of Foston Chapel Road near Eagle Way.

The health department is urging the community to take steps to prevent spreading the coronavirus.

Beaton is a partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, where he co-chairs the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice group. After law school, he was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Wednesday marked the third day in a row that local health officials reported more than 20 new coronavirus cases in a single day.

The woman's death is the county’s 10th attributed to coronavirus since the pandemic began and the fifth in the last two weeks.

As the virus continues to spread in Christian County, health officials caution residents to remember that people who are asymptomatic can still spread COVID-19.