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Gov. Beshear's Saturday COVID-19 Update

Gov. Beshear's Saturday COVID-19 Update
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Apr. 04, 2020 | FRANKFORT
By West Kentucky Star Staff Apr. 04, 2020 | 04:03 PM | FRANKFORT
In his Saturday update on the coronavirus situation in Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear encouraged everyone to continue their good work at social distancing.

Beshear said increased social distancing is working, citing dropping statistics for seasonal flu over the last few weeks, based on current practices. He believes those numbers will correlate to COVID-19, as well. 

Beshear added that new case numbers from the last few days are steady, but are not doubling, which is what outbreak models show whenever social distancing is ignored by citizens.

Saturday's new figures include 92 people with new diagnoses, and three deaths. They are a 56-year-old woman from Fayette County, a 52-year-old woman from Bullitt County, and an 81-year-old man from Boone County.

Beshear said Friday's figures were adjusted down a bit because of duplicates, but the statewide total is now 917 cases of COVID-19. Of those, he said about 130 have been hospitalized, and 76 are currently in hospitals. Forty people have now died from the virus. 

Citing CDC guidelines on Friday recommending anyone wear a cloth mask to keep from spreading the virus, Beshear said, "Wearing a mask does not replace the social distancing guidelines," and, "no one outside of a health care provider ought to be wearing an N95 mask. If you are doing that, it means that someone who desperately needs it doesn't have it."

He said that everyone's sense of community in practicing social distancing should also apply to the use of N95 or surgical masks that medical professionals need. He said the CDC now encourages everyone else to wear a cloth mask, instead. 



Watch Beshear's complete update below:

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