Holiday delay catches up as Fayette records high new COVID case numbers

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Delays in test reporting because of the Christmas holiday may have caught up Tuesday as Fayette County reported 288 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day number in more than two weeks and the ninth-highest one-day total on record.

The 288 cases pushed the county’s total to 22,894 since March, according to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department’s daily morning report Wednesday.

The county also reported three new deaths, one from December and two from November that have been confirmed as coronavirus-related. The deaths bring the county total to 159.

The county has confirmed 5,494 new cases and 26 deaths through the first 29 days of December.

To help slow the spread of COVID-19, follow these guidelines:
• Wear a cloth face-covering in public
• Avoid close contact with others
• Wash your hands often
• Stay home if you are sick.

Lexington’s COVID-19 numbers, including charts with demographics, hospitalizations and more, are updated Monday-Saturday at lfchd.org.

• 110, March
• 143, April
• 507, May
• 793, June
• 1,702 July
• 2,538, August
• 2,804, September
• 2,736, October
• 6,070, November

The county reached the following thousand-case marks on these dates:

• 22,000: Dec. 23
• 21,000: Dec. 15
• 20,000: Dec. 10

• 19,000: Dec. 6
• 18,000: Dec. 2
• 17,000: Nov. 28
• 16,000: Nov. 24
• 15,000: Nov. 20
• 14,000: Nov. 16
• 13,000: Nov. 11
• 12,000: Nov. 5
• 11,000: Oct. 29
• 10,000: Oct. 20
• 9,000: Oct. 6
• 8,000: Sept. 22
• 7,000: Sept. 11
• 6,000: Sept. 2
• 5,000: Aug. 23
• 4,000: Aug. 10
• 3,000: July 28
• 2,000: July 12
• 1,000: June 10
• 1: March 8