Officials with the Kentucky River District Health Department have reported seeing a large increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Perry County. The increase, said KRDHD officials, is expected
With this month marking the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials with the Kentucky River District Health Department said much has changed during this time, and said they are hopeful of what can come.
âIt s been a wild year for sure. It s hard to fathom what all happened,â said KRDHD Public Health Director Scott Lockard.
On March 6 last year, said Lockard, the first case of COVID-19 in Kentucky was confirmed, followed by local mandates and restrictions being pushed in mid-March and the first case being confirmed in Perry County on March 31.
âHere we are now, we ve had â the most recent data we have â we had over 8,000 cases here in our district. Just really so much has happened here in this past time. We ve had over 8,000 cases with 124 deceased individuals,â Lockard said. âOur focus and efforts in public health has really gone from contact tracing and non-pharmaceutical interventions to the pharmaceutical intervention of the v