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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WSAZ) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the next two to three weeks are “critical” in the fight to flatten the curve with COVID-19.
As of Wednesday, 198 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed.
Beshear says a 75-year-old-man from Jefferson County has died from the virus. There were underlying health issues that played a factor.
In total, five people have died in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Department of Health says 3,300 people have been tested.
One of the confirmed cases is from a patient who went to Florida on Spring Break and came back with the virus.
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There have been 140 new cases of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19, and seven additional deaths, confirmed in Georgia since noon, state health officials announced Wednesday night.
The latest update from the Georgia Department of Public Health, at 7 p.m., shows there are now 1,387 cases of the disease in the state, and the number of people who died stands at 47. That is 3.39% of the cases in Georgia.
Officials said 438 Georgians have been hospitalized because of the disease so far. That’s 31.58% of all cases seen in the state up to now.