Prior to Governor Andy Beshear’s executive order requiring it, more than 45 school systems across Kentucky elected to install mask mandates for inside of campus buildings — due to increases in COVID-19 positivity, and the spread of a Delta variant.
During Thursday’s “Team Kentucky” update, Beshear lauded one specific west Kentucky school district for making such a decision: Dawson Springs.
Hopkins County officials reported 75 new cases on Monday, 38 new cases on Tuesday and 24 new cases on Wednesday, as well as four COVID-19 related deaths in the last two weeks and a 13 percent positivity rate in the same span.
On Monday, the Hopkins County Health Department reported four infants had recently tested positive for COVID-19 infections.
