Face Coverings Executive Order:
Governor Beshear today announced that he will sign an Executive Order that requires all K-12 Students, Faculty, Staff and Visitors to wear a Mask at Schools and Child Care & Pre-Kindergarten programs in the Commonwealth while at School.
K-12 Return to School Guidance:
School districts should require all unvaccinated students and unvaccinated adults to wear a mask when in classrooms ands other indoor school settings
School districts should require all students under 12 years of age to wear a mask when in classrooms and other indoor school settings.
School districts waiting to optimize safety and minimize risk of educational and athletic disruption should require all students and all adults to wear a mask while in the classroom and other indoor school settings.
Fayette County Schools to Mandate Mask Wearing for all students, faculty, staff & visitors to any Fayette County facility to start the new School Year. (K-12)
Mask Recommendations:
All unvaccinated Kentuckians should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Kentuckians at higher risk due to pre-existing conditions should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Vaccinated Kentuckians in jobs with significant public exposure should consider wearing a mask at Work.
All Unvaccinated Kentuckians, when eligible, should be vaccinated immediately.
Also, Governor Beshear on Wednesday that ALL employees, and visitors, including those who are fully Vaccinated are now REQUIRED to wear masks in Kentucky State Offices.
Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of August 10:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,376,891
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 54%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,210,651
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 64%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 579,520
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 84%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,195,093 50%
Moderna: 961,320 40%
Janssen(J&J): 173,054 7%
Notes from Tuesday’s 8.10 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 2,500 18 & Under: 490
Total Cases: 502,712 including 373,941 with 128,771 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 11.00% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 7,391,042 Total Positive Tests: 615,050 Total PCR Positive: 439,420 Total Serology Positive: 38,969 Total Antigen Positive: 136,661
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 24,762 (4.93%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 1,251
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 5,005 (1.00%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 339
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 168
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 8,732 4,519 65.9%
ICU Beds: 1,152 663 63.5%
Ventilators: 555 1,246 30.8%
New Deaths announced today: 7
*55 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,394 Confirmed: 6,628 Probable: 766
QuarantineofVaccinatedPersonsGuidance (from CDC.gov)
Vaccine.KY.Gov to see when you can get vaccinated, or call 855-598-2246 from 8 am to 7 pm Monday-Friday. 855-598-2246 TTY: 855-326-4654 (8 am to 7 pm Monday – Friday)
The data collected by the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) on case patients comes from a number of sources, including electronic laboratory reports, provider case
disease and COVID-19 investigation reports, local health department investigation results, hospital infection prevention clinical patient data, and KDPH investigation results. Data is often found incomplete and/or incorrect and during KDPH investigation individual patient-level data is added to, corrected, and de-duplicated so that overall case counts and aggregate data values change daily.
