Hopkins Co. reports 50 new COVID-19 cases over the past week
31 new cases reported in Green River District (Source: WFIE) By 14 News Staff | April 27, 2021 at 11:20 AM CDT - Updated April 27 at 3:12 PM
KENTUCKY (WFIE) - The Hopkins County Health Department reports 50 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths over the past week. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the county has seen a total of 4,247 cases.
Out of those positive cases, 4,011 residents made recoveries.
There are 97 active cases in the community.
On Tuesday, the Green River District reported 31 new coronavirus cases.
Of the new cases reported, 17 were in Daviess County, five were in Webster County, four were in Henderson County, three were in Hancock County, and there was one new case in both Ohio and Union counties.
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Henderson County has reported 59 new cases this week.
An earlier death of a Henderson County resident was attributed to COVID after a state audit of death certificates, raising the total to 76 in the county. A previously reported death of an Ohio County resident was determined not to be COVID-related.
Despite the spike in cases, Henderson County dropped from the red or critical level to the orange or accelerated level on the state s incidence rate map on Thursday. The incidence rate, which measures the average daily cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days, dropped to 17.7 as of Thursday afternoon in the county. Webster County and Union County remained in the yellow or community spread level with incidence rates of 9.9 and 6.0, respectively.
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