Gov. Andy Beshear ordered all “non-essential” retail businesses in Kentucky to close to in-person traffic by 8 p.m. Monday as the number of COVID-19 cases in the state surpassed 100 on Sunday.
Beshear announced 16 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Kentucky, bringing the state’s total to 103. Of those, three have died.Three of the new cases are in Fayette County, bringing the total in Lexington to 15. There were five new cases in Jefferson County, a 24-year-old man in Christian County, one in Hardin County, one in Henderson County and one in Northern Kentucky. The location of four new cases has not yet been reported.