K-12 Return to School Guidance:
School districts should require all unvaccinated students and unvaccinated adults to wear a mask when in classrooms ands other indoor school settings
School districts should require all students under 12 years of age to wear a mask when in classrooms and other indoor school settings.
School districts waiting to optimize safety and minimize risk of educational and athletic disruption should require all students and all adults to wear a mask while in the classroom and other indoor school settings.
Mask Recommendations:
All unvaccinated Kentuckians should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Kentuckians at higher risk due to pre-existing conditions should wear masks indoors when not in their home.
Vaccinated Kentuckians in jobs with significant public exposure should consider wearing a mask at Work.
All Unvaccinated Kentuckians, when eligible, should be vaccinated immediately.
Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring
As of July 26:
Total State Population: 4,440,204
Total State Population Vaccinated: 2,278,834
% of Total State Population Vaccinated: 51%
Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 2,131,087
% of Total State Population > 18 Years of Age Vaccinated: 62%
Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 574,670
% of Total State Population >65 Years of Age Vaccinated: 83%
First Dose Administered by Vaccine:
Pfizer: 1,136,012 49%
Moderna: 929,838 40%
Janssen(J&J): 166,319 7%
Notes from Monday’s 7.26 Ky. COVID-19 Daily Summary
Total New Cases: 783 18 & Under: 174
Total Cases: 476,650 including 357,153 with 119,497 Probable cases.
Positivity Rate: 7.89% (7-day Rollover Average)*
Total Tests: 7,129,448 Total Positive Tests: 584,162 Total PCR Positive: 420,764 Total Serology Positive: 37,101 Total Antigen Positive: 126,297
Kentuckians Ever Hospitalized with COVID-19: 24,141 (5.06%)
Kentuckians now in Hospital with COVID-19: 486
Kentuckians Ever in ICU with COVID-19: 4,901 (1.03%)
Kentuckians now in ICU with COVID-19: 159
Kentuckians on a Ventilator with COVID-19: 71
Current Hospitalized Patients:
Occupied | Available | % Occupancy
Inpatient Beds: 8,206 5,045 61.9%
ICU Beds: 1,109 706 61.1%
Ventilators: 463 1,233 27.3%
New Deaths announced today: 2
*11 duplicates and records not meeting case criteria removed since the last report.
Total Deaths due to COVID-19: 7,319 Confirmed: 6,560 Probable: 759
QuarantineofVaccinatedPersonsGuidance (from CDC.gov)
Vaccine.KY.Gov to see when you can get vaccinated, or call 855-598-2246 from 8 am to 7 pm Monday-Friday. 855-598-2246 TTY: 855-326-4654 (8 am to 7 pm Monday – Friday)
The data collected by the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) on case patients comes from a number of sources, including electronic laboratory reports, provider case
disease and COVID-19 investigation reports, local health department investigation results, hospital infection prevention clinical patient data, and KDPH investigation results. Data is often found incomplete and/or incorrect and during KDPH investigation individual patient-level data is added to, corrected, and de-duplicated so that overall case counts and aggregate data values change daily.