Coronavirus Surge Rages On

Evansville IN

21 January, 2022

12:50 PM

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By John Gibson, WNIN January 21, 2022 COVID-19 related deaths and infections continue to surge in western Kentucky. The Green River District Health Department counted 14 COVID-related deaths in the seven-county district between Friday and Monday. Eleven of the fatalities were in Daviess County, where the pandemic death toll reached 336. The other three COVID-related deaths were in Henderson, Union, and McLean counties. The department also tallied more than 3,000 new infections in the district during the four-day period. District Health Director Clay Horton continued to urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. In a release, the district said nearly 58 percent of Daviess County residents and about 56.5 percent of Henderson County residents are fully vaccinated. Hancock County has the district's highest vaccination rate at more than 64 percent. Ohio County has the lowest at about 43 percent. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.