While the number of COVID-19 cases is down compared to the same day last week, people hospitalized with the virus have increased nearly 10-percent since last Wednesday.
The state reported 782 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, which is 246 fewer than the same day last week. However, people in the hospital has increased from 383 last week to 420 Wednesday.
The number of people in the ICU is nearly unchanged from last week.
Kentucky’s testing positivity rate has increased nearly a half percent in the past week to 3.33-percent.
Kentucky’s case total has seen it move up nationally from the bottom 10 in the nation last fall to 25th. The state ranks sixth in the number of active cases.
As of Wednesday, over 1.6-million Kentuckians had received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, which represents 38-percent of the state’s population.
The state also announced 14 new deaths related to the virus and 10 others from the state’s ongoing COVID fatalities audit.
Kentucky ranks 28th nationally with over 6,200 deaths linked to the COVID-19 virus and 34th when adjusted to deaths per one million population.
