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 26:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,488,328
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 56%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,305,244
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 67%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 585,360
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 85%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,259,126 50%
Moderna: 1,001,000 40%
Janssen(J&J): 180,015 7%
Notes from Thursday’s 8.25 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 5,401 18 & Under: 1,759
Total Cases: 557,835 including 412,143 with 145,692 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 13.24% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 7,864,673 Total Positive Tests: 679,615 Total PCR Positive: 483,185 Total Serology Positive: 41,820 Total Antigen Positive: 154,610
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 25,595 (4.59%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 2,115
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 5,138 (0.92%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 590
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 345
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 9,284 4,169 69.0%
ICU Beds: 1,281 551 69.9%
Ventilators: 759 1,063 41.7%
New Deaths announced today: 27
*67 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,667 Confirmed: 6,870 Probable: 797
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.
