Gov. Andy Beshear announced 280 new cases, bringing the state's total to 14,617. That pushed the seven-day rolling average to 211, from 204 the day before.
The new partners include the Dutch government, several Dutch companies, the University of Kentucky, Morehead State University, Eastern Kentucky University, the University of Pikeville and Berea College, Estep reports.
The guidance also includes general instructions for sanitation, and says schools will need to work with health departments to help track down people who have had contact with people who have tested positive for the virus.
As everything in Kentucky opens at some capacity on Monday, Beshear also urged Kentuckians to keep 6 feet of social distance and decrease their daily activities by half — things he said they will need to do until a vaccine is readily available.
In early June, a federal court essentially banned sales of dicamba-based herbicides for the next six months, after finding that the Environmental Protection Agency hadn't done its due diligence in 2018 when reauthorizing the chemical until December 2020.
Final results of the election will be released in coming days as officials count mail-in ballots, which all Kentucky voters had the opportunity to cast this year in an effort to reduce exposure to the coronavirus.
eshear recently said that his decisions about the virus would be guided more by hospital data than new cases. The state's daily report said 376 Kentuckians were hospitalized for COVID-19 and 70 of them are in intensive care. Those figures have been increasing since the 339 and 64 reported Friday.
"... what kind of a human being says, when told point-blank that the person with whom he's in conversation knows people who have died or become gravely ill, responds that such people must have had underlying conditions? What's his point? That they deserved to die?"
The governor said the state continues to be on a manageable plateau when it comes to new cases, and the state has plenty of hospital beds and intensive care unit beds available, noting that hospital occupancy is around 50 percent and its intensive-care capacity is around 70 percent.
After the election was postponed for more than a month because of the coronavirus pandemic, Christian County residents will head to the polls Tuesday to select nominees for the presidency and the U.S. Senate, as well as some city council seats and the judgeship in the 1st Appellate District, Division 1.
