A total of 399 more cases of COVID-19 and 1 recovery were announced Saturday for the Green River District, including 165 cases in Daviess County.
This is the largest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in a single day for the seven-county region, surpassing the December 18, 2020, report of 282 new cases.
As reported by Green River District Health Department:
- New cases by county: Daviess (165), Hancock (15), Henderson (96), McLean (23), Ohio (64), Union (10), Webster (16)
- New recoveries by county: Henderson (1)
- Total number of reported cases in the district: 14,514
- Total number of reported cases now recovered: 10,369 (71%)
- Total number of reported cases currently hospitalized: 46
- Total number of cases that have required hospitalization: 675 (5%)
- Total number of deaths in the district: 250
The county totals to date are:
- Daviess County – 6,507 cases, 4,621 recovered, 24 current hospitalizations, 261 ever hospitalized, 107 deaths
- Hancock County – 541 cases, 346 recovered, 1 current hospitalization, 20 ever hospitalized, 13 deaths
- Henderson County – 3,259 cases, 2,332 recovered, 7 current hospitalizations, 171 ever hospitalized, 52 deaths
- McLean County – 617 cases, 446 recovered, 2 current hospitalizations, 38 ever hospitalized, 23 deaths
- Ohio County – 1,749 cases, 1,244 recovered, 5 current hospitalizations, 91 ever hospitalized, 33 deaths
- Union County – 980 cases, 794 recovered, 5 current hospitalizations, 50 ever hospitalized, 9 deaths
- Webster County – 861 cases, 586 recovered, 2 current hospitalizations, 44 ever hospitalized, 13 deaths
Demographics (not all demographic information is available because of incomplete reporting from a testing site):
- Age range: 1 month-102 years old
- Average age: 45
- Male: 45.1%
- Female: 54.9%
Cases by age range are :
- <1 — 60 cases
- 1-11 — 461 cases
- 12-19 — 1,182 cases
- 20-29 — 2,389 cases
- 30-39 — 2,270 cases
- 40-49 — 2,218 cases
- 50-59 — 2,083 cases
- 60-69 — 1,824 cases
- 70-79 — 1,167 cases
- 80+ — 860 cases
The cases reported by GRDHD have been investigated and confirmed locally. These cases are then reported to the Kentucky Department for Public Health. This process sometimes may result in lags between state and local reporting and some discrepancies from duplicate reports.
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