Gov. Beshear issues travel advisory as cases rise
FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced new limits on social gatherings and a travel advisory Monday as COVID-19 cases surged to new highs over the weekend.
The Democratic governor’s announcement comes after a record-breaking number of nearly 1,000 cases were reported Sunday, capping off a week of elevated daily case counts. Kentucky reported 258 new cases and one death Monday, though the number is much lower because many of the state’s testing centers were closed Sunday, Beshear said.
“We've just got to realize the stakes just got a lot harder and this war is going to be a lot longer than we had hoped,” Beshear said during an afternoon pandemic briefing. He said he expected the newly reported case numbers to be higher than Monday’s by the middle of the week.
Under a new advisory announced Monday, Kentuckians who travel to nine hot spot states reporting positive testing rates equal or greater than 15% are now recommended to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine.
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(Elizabethtown News Enterprise)