NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 — The Lincoln Trail District Health Department announced Monday that it would no longer update the statistics it has been tracking on the number of COVID-19 cases in each of the six counties in the Lincoln Trail district. Since the pandemic began, the district health […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 — Nelson Fiscal Court voted 3-2 Tuesday morning to reverse the order of the county’s annual bulky item pickup. Gary Coulter, magistrate for District 2, had lobbied the court to change the order of the areas during bulky item pickup so that residents […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Nov. 27, 2020 — While Nelson County continues to report double-digit new COVID-19 cases that keep it in the critical “red zone,” the county’ss 7-day average incidence rating continues to slowly decline. Sixty-three new COVID-19 cases were reported Friday in Nelson County, bringing the county’s total to 2,046 […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 — While Nelson County’s incidence rating has dropped slightly since Friday’s figures, the county’s 79.7 rating keeps it well into the “red zone” range. In the six-district Lincoln Trail District, only Marion County has a higher incidence rating than Nelson County (94.9). Washington County is […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 — As COVID-19 cases increase exponentially across the state, 117 of the state’s 120 counties received the “red zone” designation on the state’s COVID incidence map. The incidence rating is determined by a rolling 7-day average of a county’s new COVID-19 cases factored into the […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 — Flaget Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Unit, part of CHI Saint Joseph Health, is among a select group of facilities nationwide and in Kentucky to receive an overall five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of its 2020 Nursing […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 — Nelson County had 48 new COVID-19 cases reported Thursday by the Lincoln Trail District Health Department. The new cases bring the county’s COVID case total to 1,769, of which 363 are quarantined at home, and 4 people are hospitalized. The county has […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 — As of Tuesday, only 14 of Kentucky’s 120 counties were not in the “red zone” regarding the spread of COVID-19, according to the state’s COVID incidence map. Only 7 counties in Kentucky have a higher incidence rate than Nelson County, which is […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 — In response to the increasing community spread of COVID-19, Flaget Memorial Hospital has implemented new visitor restrictions effective Tuesday, Nov. 17th. Visiting hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Overnight visitors are not allowed and each visitor must wear a mask at […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020 — No new COVID-19 cases were reported this past week in any of the K-12 schools in Nelson County according to school data published Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, by the Kentucky Department for Public Health data. The data is compiled from reports school districts provide to […]
