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 31:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,530,562
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 57%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,342,365
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 68%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 588,197
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 85%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,285,436 50%
Moderna: 1,014,324 40%
Janssen(J&J): 182,315 7%
Notes from Tuesday’s 8.31 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 4,548 18 & Under: 1,407
Total Cases: 577,051 including 425,943 with 151,108 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 13.66% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 8,008,291 Total Positive Tests: 700,980 Total PCR Positive: 497,979 Total Serology Positive: 43,012 Total Antigen Positive: 159,989
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 26,037 (4.51%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 2,274
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 5,202 (0.90%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 617
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 406
New Deaths announced today: 23
*14 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,764 Confirmed: 6,953 Probable: 811
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.
