Yesterday Gov Beshear advised the commonwealth’s education leaders to keep facilities closed to in-person instruction for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year.

He said the move is in line with newly released guidelines from the White House and Kentucky’s own benchmarks that the commonwealth must meet in order to start reopening the state’s economy while keeping Kentuckians safe from the novel coronavirus.

He said schools were being asked to continue nontraditional instruction and food service for students in need.

Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, who is also secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, appeared Monday via video link to offer an update on unemployment as the state continues to process an increased amount of claims and payments.

She said on average the state is seeing about 13,000 new claims per day, as officials continue to staff up.She urged those seeking benefits not to reapply and not to open a new claim if they have already applied. The only people who need to reopen a claim are those requesting an additional 13 weeks because the original benefits have expired.

Gov. Beshear said there were 102 new confirmed cases bringing the statewide total to 3,050. Unfortunately, there were six new deaths reported raising the state’s COVID-19 death total to 154 
There are 1,144 Kentuckians that have fully recovered from COVID-19. 

There have been 32,830 people have been tested for coronavirus across the state. At least 1,017 people have ever been hospitalized with 263 currently hospitalized.

At least 532 have ever been in the ICU with at least 147 people currently in the ICU.

Remember that you can tune into our sister stations 92.7 & 99.9 each day at 5:00 to listen to Gov Beshears news conference. Reporting for 98.7 news I am Crystal Sallee.