Visiting will occur in an area close to the main entrance, not in residents' rooms. Visitors will be screened for COVID-19 symptoms or contacts, required to wear masks and required to stay six feet from the resident.
Beshear reported 576 cases, almost as many as the 625 that the state reported on May 5, when it included 309 cases from a prison, which were found over several days of testing.
During an update Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear reminded Kentuckians that nearly three-fourths of residents support requiring people to wear a mask in public places and asserted the "broken system of social media" allows small groups to look like majorities.
Paducah Beer Werks is closing Monday to Wednesday following a notification that multiple people who had eaten at the brewery had been in direct contact with an individual that tested positive for COVID-19 this past week.
"The worst thing during this is that when one symptom starts to subside, I would develop two different ones. It is almost like someone is controlling them and taking turns turning them up and down as a sick joke." — Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins
Some employees of the station’s parent company, Paxton Media Group, say that policy discourages them from getting a test. Paxton also owns several newspapers in the region, including the Kentucky New Era.
"Everyone should wear a mask. People who say 'I don't believe masks work' are ignoring scientific evidence. It's not a belief system. It's like saying, 'I don't believe in gravity.'" — Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California-Davis Children's Hospital
Beshear said he ordered the mask requirement because recent increases in coronavirus cases threaten to escalate the spread in Kentucky. He said he doesn’t want Kentucky to experience the kind of spike seen in other states that now face hospital bed shortages.
One measure Beshear could mandate is the wearing of face masks, a step that is highly controversial despite proof that it curbs the spread of the virus. Such orders have been issued by governors in at least 19 other states, including West Virginia.
